Intaglio art
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"The density of lines, tools, acid are all factors in what happens on the plate," Summer says. The acid eats between the particles of resist on the copper, creating a rough surface that holds ink. This is from aquatint, tiny particles of acid resist, which Summer uses to create a tonal effect. There are also sections of the copper that appear gritty and weathered, like the surface of blacktop or cement. Up close, the etching needle creates delicate branch-like lines on the copper. Photograph courtesy of Evan SummerĪ single plate holds a collage of textures that cannot all be made with one tool.
#Intaglio art trial#
Sometimes Summer will make fifteen proofs or trial prints before he finds the right result, revising the copper plate in between each print.Įvan Summer, Beneath the Surface. When he's ready to see the print, he covers the plate with a thick viscous ink, wipes it with a cloth, and runs it face up through the press, printing on to dampened paper.
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He scratches through the ground with an etching needle exposing the underlying metal. To create a copper plate, Summer first covers the plate with acid resistant hardground. Copper gave him a cleaner etch, with precise lines that fit the images he wished to create in prints. When he started printmaking as an undergrad in art school, he didn't care for zinc. Over the years, he's even invented a copper-plate printmaking system that allows him to send, exhibit and market his work through the mail to galleries all over the world.Ĭopper is Summer's favorite medium. He shows in solo and group exhibitions from New York to California, Eastern Europe and Asia. Photograph by Paul DavidĮvan Summer may live in a small town, but this printmaker has been making waves in the art world since the mid-eighties.Įquipped with his own home studio and University Printmaking Workshop at Kutztown University (where he also teaches), Summer uses the intaglio method to create his signature detailed prints on copperplate with an almost three-dimensional feel.