Japanese Koi pond etching with aquatint intaglio by WILLIAM HOLT

Description

After spending a day at a Japanese garden, I was intrigued by the hundreds of Koi the gardens had in their numerous ponds. They are quite domesticted, what with people feeding them all day, they practiclly eat out of your hand. Koi are beautiful fish, and often grow to be 36”.

Koi is a limited edition original etching with aquatint, number 32 from an edition of 35. The image area is 4 3/8" x 8 7/8", printed on 10" x 13" BFK Rives archival printmaking paper, and is pencil-signed and numbered.

PLEASE NOTE: This print does NOT include framing or matting. The photo of the framed art is only to suggest a style of framing.


All of my original prints are hand-pulled by me. Because of this, each etching, aquatint, silkscreen, woodblock or lithograph I do varies slightly from print to print, in effect making each impression an original print, unlike a “reproduction”, where every print is exactly the same.

How is an etching done?
An etching requires a highly polished metal plate, usually copper or zinc. The plate is covered in wax (or some other resist). I then draw the design directly into the wax using a sharp instrument known as an etching needle, the idea being to expose the metal along the lines I draw. The plate is dropped into a bowl of acid, which eats into the exposed metal. This process may be repeated many times for the development of the image. When the image is complete, the plate is inked and then the surface is wiped with a cloth, leaving ink lodged in the lines that have been etched into the surface of the plate. A sheet of damp paper is pressed upon the plate and a print results.

How is an aquatint done?
Like etching, aquatint uses the application of acid to make the marks in the metal plate. Where the etching technique uses a needle to make lines that print in black (or whatever colour ink is used), aquatint uses powdered resin (or a liquid acrylic) which is acid resistant in the ground to create a tonal effect. The tonal variation is controlled by the level of acid exposure over large areas, and thus the image is shaped by large sections at a time.

I do not use any of the photography processes available today to etch my images, preferring to use traditional methods in my work.


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Member:
Los Angeles Printmaking Society

Added on Nov 13, 2008

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