The printing in this as in other aquatint methods is done with soft and thin printing-color, and the paper may be more dampened than in other forms of lithography.
Aquatint in copper engraved style, and with etching ground.
Those lines, however, that are not to disappear in the aquatint tone, but are to show plainly, must be cut as deeply as necessary for greater or lesser blackness.
By breathing on this, the resin is made to separate from the spirits and form tiny pellets, which thus make the required aquatint ground.
Sometimes black lacquer is used with advantage instead of lampblack; and Frankfurter black is successful in the intaglio and aquatint methods.
In aquatintit must be dampened more, about six dry sheets coming to one wet one.
With the exception of the aquatint processes, good printing can be done with dry but unsized paper.
The preparation of the stone for pen drawings with oil or soap-water and several aquatint methods, is based on this principle, that a very thin coating of grease can be etched away partly or wholly, at will.
He worked in aquatint and successfully revived the old process, vernis mou.
He used aquatintwith full knowledge of effects to be produced, and at times he recalls Rembrandt in the depth of his shadows.
Goya, as Baudelaire pointed out more than half a century ago, executed his etchings by combining aquatint and the use of the dry point.
Aquatint may be effectively used in combination with line etching, and still more harmoniously with soft ground etching in which the line imitates that of the lead pencil.
In the present day Mr. George Baxter has attempted to extend the boundaries of this art by calling in the aid of aquatint for his outlines and first ground, and by copying the positive colours of an oil or water-colour painting.
In the time of the Russian campaign of 1812 he was very busy with aquatint tableaux of the disaster and shameful flight of Napoleon I.
The third view appears in a well-executed aquatint plate of ‘Fulham Park School taken from the Play Ground.
This is, however, prevented by the aquatint ground, which allows the mordant to circulate only in the channels around the resinous particles of which it consists, and thus produces a grain precisely as in ordinary aquatinting.
A dry aquatintground is laid on a metal plate, and over this is mounted a gelatine negative film, made by the pigment printing process.
He also did considerable work as an aquatint engraver.
He did aquatintwork and drew upon stone for the lithographers.
Of these methods only aquatint survived after early years of the 19th century.
Often called the Cabinet Crozat, it was reprinted by Basan in 1763 with aquatint tones by François Charpentier replacing the woodblock tints.
Neither aquatint nor other copper-plate media were suitable for these products, and color lithography did not receive serious attention until the late 1830’s.
The terms were, that Turner was to etch and Lewis to aquatintat five guineas a plate.
Lewis, the best aquatint engraver of the day, who at the very time was at work on facsimiles of Claude's drawings.
It only got a fresh start in France when, notably modified and improved by the initiative of foreign engravers, it had been transformed in London into what is known as aquatint engraving.
Mezzotint and aquatinthave been not nearly so fortunate.
Jazet, for instance, contributed greatly to the triumph of aquatint in France, by applying it, from the first years of the Restoration, to the interpretation of the works of Horace Vernet.
It was a bitter commentary on human nature, that a mere aquatint of these poor naked creatures jolting to exile in their tumbril should extort half a crown from an English undergraduate to probe their history.
He wondered rather how Manon Lescaut had come into this bookshelf, and he opened it at an aquatint of ladies deject and lightly clothed--c'est une douzaine de filles de joie, said the inscription beneath.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aquatint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
