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A mezzotint is a kind of engraving and
that means you have a
copperplate and
tools and you don't use acid.
You don't use anything very technical. You prepare a plate
to get a print. You,
hand...by hand you put on
ink, wipe off the excess,
and put the plate
on an etching press. And I brought my etching press back from London, it's a beautiful
old cast iron press.
It weighs one ton.
I put damp paper on the plate. I
turn the press by hand and
lift up the paper and there's the magic of this beautiful
mezzotint. And then to do the next print I go
through the same procedure. So a plate like this
and the other plate that's in the library probably take me half an hour to print
each one. There's a preparation to the plate
and then there's the creating of the
image and probably close to a year
for this and the other mezzotint and that's in the library the whole process
including the initial printing was about a year.
I mean at the same time I would be doing some painting and drawing
but they took a long time.