aquatinte
aquatint (noun) engraving etching imitating wash drawing. It creates areas with subtle tones and lines carved with great care. The aquatint was adopted in the late eighteenth century. It generally uses a metal plate that is dusted with a thin layer of resin and is immersed in an acid bath used to bite the metal around each grain. The surface thus obtained holds ink well, uniform, thin and grainy. It is possible to produce lighter tones using acid-resistant varnish, and darker areas by extending the exposure time to acid. Gainsborough aquatint but tried his hand at the first artist who managed to dominate this technique was JB Le Prince (1733-1781). Goya, Degas, Pissarro, Picasso and Rouault are among the best users of this technique.
Meaning and uses
The aquatint, aquatints is an etching process by which we get different tones by the bite, more or less prolonged, in a pool of acid, a metal plate covered with a layer of resin or bitumen powder.
Kind of etching etching, imitating wash drawings
Etching process akin to etching and intended to obtain solid color tint effects comparable to those of the wash for drawing.
technique of etching that produces areas of your texture, or grain, on the board, the negative grain is most commonly done by sprinkling the board of resin that adheres to metal by heating, the plate is then bitten with acid solution (the bite), which attacks the …
Using the method of etching, the writer gets the impression of seed wash spraying emery nail on the drive that the puncture and allow the acid to bite the metal plate.
Etching on a plate prepared with a grain. this method, discovered in the eighteenth century, allows the artist to obtain shades by adjusting the bite and the fineness of the resin and create zones of different values without to hatching.