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Evan Summer has been kind enough to let us share some of his most recent etchings with our readers. This print series is so new that they aren’t even on his own website yet so this is a Printeresting web exclusive! There are more images and a current statement from Evan after the jump…
Frédéric Coché is an elusive european artist whose work employs finely drawn etchings that look like they sprung from the mind of James Ensor after a bit too much absynthe. You can see the cover to the book , Hortus Sanitas, above (published by Fremok and available here and here). This format is typical to the 2-3 volumes of Coché’s work that are available; it’s a sequential narrative constructed out of line etchings with a layout like a graphic novel.
The image above is a sample page from Hortus Sanitus. Trying to track down any information on Coché requires some serious internet digging (mostly because one has to slip-out of the english-only inter-web). I did find an interesting write-up on him in Stripburger, “the only Slovene comic magazine covering news in comics, theories on comics and works of Slovene and foreign comic authors (there have been 36 numbers released yet)”:
More images and information after the jump. A break from SGC… For those of you who still shudder when you see a birdfeeder, Hitchcock’s classic, The Birds, celebrates it’s 46th birthday today! Here’s an inspired etching/aquatint by Owen Freeman… Who doesn’t love a good tattooed-cat aquatint?
Pretty Boys, a 2005 etching by Melbourne-based Rona Green published by Port Jackson Press, Australia
So this isn’t a groundhog. It’s a bear. Or maybe it’s a wolf. And clearly, he has bigger worries than seeing a shadow. This etching by an unknown artist is from Bri Johnson’s site. Johnson says, “I think this image honestly captures my transition to adulthood.” Here’s hoping for an early Spring. UPDATE: Six more weeks of winter. If you believe a groundhog.
Apparently the media is up to its old tricks again… smearing printmaking’s good name through confusing misuse of print terminology. The city of Christchurch in New Zealand is suffering from a spate of vandalism that is being referred to as an “etching epidemic.” This is an outrage. Every Beginning Intaglio student knows that etching requires acid… more accurately this is a “drypoint epidemic,” or perhaps even an “engraving epidemic” assuming these young hoods are skilled with a buren. But an “etching epidemic”?! Come on, media, do your homework!
Dora Lisa Rosenbaum is a print artist living and working in Bloomington, Indiana. Brief interview after the jump.
The etchings of Uwe Bremer… I’ve tried to learn more about this German printmaker/writer but there is relatively little biographical information online. I stumbled across a few of his images on ffffound and was intrigued (it’s unusual to find an etching on ffffound). They were made about thirty years ago but due to the resurgent interest in all things seventies, they look surprisingly contemporary- a mix of science fiction and occult aesthetics. Apparently, Bremer is co-founder of Rixdorfer Workshop in Berlin where he (maybe?) still works today. I would gladly update this post with more info if anyone wants to provide it.
We all know that Nitric Acid is going the way of Dutch Mordant. And Ferric Chloride, the safest acid alternative, creates a huge rust-colored mess. Don’t you wish there was some other option… something safe and dry and clean? While doing some research on laser etching (keep an eye for future posting), I stumbled across some plans for electric pencils. What a Craftsman 14.4-volt compact drill is a hand drill, the electric “pencil” is to your etching needle…
It’s Friday so you probably have time to kill, right? These fun and useful projects from Vintage Projects will enhance your studio. Plans for… Electric Arc Etching PencilVibrating Electric Pencil |
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