[image_with_animation image_url=”11428″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] From previous V.Note:
“Though I thought I should give it a try, I really thought I wouldn’t like drypoint because every time I heard the word “drypoint” I heard nails on a chalkboard, and most of the prints labeled as “drypoints” seemed less rich and subtle than the etchings that I admired. I was wrong. Nikki informed me that people often misuse the word etching (a chemical process) because it sounds better than drypoint (a scratchity process), and many of the prints I had thought were etchings were actually mislabeled drypoints.”
Take a look at this work by Frank Hobbs. See those velvety areas, and graceful line work? This is a drypoint, not an etching.
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Before there were art supply stores, people made art. Before there were pencils, there were sharpened mineral rocks. Before there were brushes there were clumps of grass and twigs and fur. Today’s drawing is “No Art Store Tools.” You can use paper, but no pencils. Ink is fine, but no pens. So what now? Lots! …
This is not an etching: Frank Hobbs
[image_with_animation image_url=”11428″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] From previous V.Note:
“Though I thought I should give it a try, I really thought I wouldn’t like drypoint because every time I heard the word “drypoint” I heard nails on a chalkboard, and most of the prints labeled as “drypoints” seemed less rich and subtle than the etchings that I admired. I was wrong. Nikki informed me that people often misuse the word etching (a chemical process) because it sounds better than drypoint (a scratchity process), and many of the prints I had thought were etchings were actually mislabeled drypoints.”
Take a look at this work by Frank Hobbs. See those velvety areas, and graceful line work? This is a drypoint, not an etching.
[image_with_animation image_url=”11427″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%
Images: https://frank-hobbsart.com/portfolios/printmaking-drypoints-etchings/1
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