Experiment: Intaglio Printing

Last quarter, I took a studio in Advanced Printmaking, as I have taken three studios in different kinds of printmaking (screen-printing, intaglio, and relief). In this studio, I focused on intaglio. Here is a sampling of the prints that resulted. These are more monoprint than intaglio, to be honest, as I painted thinned ink straight onto the plate to print. However, I would call them intaglio since the plate was a zinc plate that I had etched initially. I worked with the same plate all quarter. It's fascinating that you can achieve many different effects and moods using the exact same plate.