Etching and photoengraving are printmaking techniques that never cease to amaze me. There is a magical quality to inking a copper plate once the line has been incised, cleaning the plate, covering it with the paper that will receive the image and turning the wheel of the printing press. Then there is that fantastic moment of lifting the paper to see the image appear.
Like tapestry weaving and so many other forms of art precise technique is involved in printmaking. Etching, aquatint, lithography, photoengraving, linocut, wood engraving, and embossing among others are different printmaking techniques used to achieve varying printed results.
In my case I usually make monotypes since I apply different techniques to a plate in order to make a unique piece that will unite my work with fibers to their expression on paper. I intervene the work before printing using the technique of chine collé. The addition of colored papers or different materials transforms a print. There is a dialogue established between the original image on the plate and the materials that have intervened that image
