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Hi. I'm Jason Shoemaker at Slugfest Printmaking Workshop. And we're going to talk a little
bit about dry point. Like engraving dry point is a direct process that doesn't require any
further acid processes or anything else. You can make a mark, a very spontaneous mark,
and then go and print that with great results. Dry point actually creates a burr in the metal,
which is usually cut off in etching or engraving. That burr is going to hold ink. It's going
to give it a nice soft kind of fluffy mark. There's a couple different tools. There's
a scribe which is also used in etching. But used in metal it creates a burr. And this
is a diamond point scribe. Which you never need to sharpen. This scribe you need to sharpen
every once in a while just to keep a nice point or else it's not going to give you a
nice good burr. But one thing is you can hold this just like a pencil or anything else and
just start doodling on the copper. I often do some sketching on the copper and you can
go back and engrave it or some of the other processes. There's a couple different ways
to hold it. 90 degrees with the copper is going to give you burrs on each side. And
it's just drawing. If you tilt it you're going to get a burr on the opposite side from where
the tool is leaning. So my tool is this way the burr's going to be on this side. So depending
on what you're doing it's just a matter of drawing.