The School of the Transfer of Energy

Copper Engraving Progress

Posted in prints, technique and process by jackbaumgartner on January 23, 2010

Here are some more pictures of the engraving process, and the second proof as work continues on a small copper plate of Walking Man observing and drawing a comet.

Engraving lines in the copper using a burin.

Detail of a small curl of copper being plowed up by the burin.

The plate after being inked and rubbed for printing.

The printed proof of the plate- revealing the progress thus far.

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