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Article · The Printmaker's Compendium (University of Waterloo)
Copper Etching Soft Ground: Step Two – Drawing
By University of Waterloo Fine Arts
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2014
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.
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