Channel: Victoria and Albert Museum

Category: Education

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Description: For Katherine Jones, printmaking is a process that “lets you breathe”. Specialising in the technique of etching, Katherine sees it as a total medium, both “exciting and monotonous”, that is able to achieve a range of marks, from a painterly style to something that is hard and fine. In this film, we follow her as she explains and demonstrates the process of sugar lift etching, creating multiple colour proofs of a pansy flower from the same plate. Process: The nature of etching: 00:00 Preparing and polishing the plate: 00:35 Laying wax ground over the plate: 01:07 Smoking the wax: 01:21 Using an etching needle: 01:33 Brushing on sugar lift solution: 02:28 Liquid ground applied: 03:09 Warm water poured over the plate: 03:20 Plate placed inside an aquatint box and resin dust heated: 03:40 Proofing: 05:07 Ink applied and excess removed: 05:32 Etching press: 05:40 Final prints: 06:26 Find out more about printmaking techniques: vam.ac.uk/articles/what-is-print Explore the prints in our collections: collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_category=THES48903