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Mezzotint Workshop at the ICA - Feb 2 & 3

1/11/2013

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Judith Rothchild. "Le Grand Chou". 2007. Mezzotint
Interested in mezzotints? Like to draw? Consider taking this specially offered workshop at the ICA Print Center, taught by internationally renowned mezzotint artist Judith Rothchild. 

Mezzotint is a method of intaglio printmaking, done without the use of acids or etchants. It is a dry point technique. A copper plate is first "rocked" with a special hand tool (a rocker) to evenly pit the entire surface. If inked and printed, these small, fine pits, create a solid print of a uniform black. After rocking, the plate is worked with a burnisher and a scraper, to remove and smooth areas of the copper so when inked and wiped, they print with lighter values than the black areas of the rocked and pitted surface.  Thus, it becomes a reductive process, where the light values of the image are scraped and smoothed from the background. The design principle is similar to that of reductive charcoal drawing; Where one starts with a black background and creates an image by removing and erasing charcoal pigment.

The ICA Print Center is proud to host Rockin' Mezzotint, Judith's weekend workshop, Feb 2 & 3, 2013, 10am-5pm.  Don't miss the opportunity to learn from Judith, a master of the mezzotint, before she heads back to France. The workshop is limited to 6.

For more info and to sign up click here: http://bit.ly/RFLRSq

Judith Rothchild studied drawing, painting and printmaking at the Boston
University Tanglewood Summer program, Sarah Lawrence College, Rhode Island
School of Design (BFA) and the Academie für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.  She has
made hundreds of mezzotints as well as 26 artist books with her partner Mark
Lintott under the name of Editions Verdigris. She has shown her prints in
numerous group and solo shows in London, Switzerland and France, as well as
regularly participating in artist book fairs in Paris, London, Barcelona,
Brussels, Madrid and Berkeley Ca. She regularly gives courses in mezzotint at
the Maison de la Gravure at Castelnau, near Montpellier, and has presented
internationally on the topic. She lives in the South of France.
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Judith Rothchild. "Just Before Twelve". 2006. Mezzotint.
Interested in reading more about the history of mezzotint? Check out this informative site from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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