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Copper Etching Soft Ground: Step Two – Drawing

By University of Waterloo Fine Arts

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2014
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About this lesson

A university printmaking department's step-by-step guide to drawing into soft ground: placing paper over a ground-coated copper plate, drawing to lift the wax, pressing textures through the press, then hardening the ground in a hot box to combine soft- and hard-ground effects on one plate.