Greenman Studios
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Original Copperplate
Etchings
Created March 12th 2000
By William F. Cox and son.
Green Man circualar hand-illuminated etching.
Archival six inch laser prints: $20
Original mono chrome 4" etching: $50.
Number of hits since creation
Internationally acclaimed artist/printmaker William F. Cox has delighted audiences with his intricate original copperplate etchings for the past thirty years.
Winning numerous Best in Show and First Place awards over the past quarter century, his etchings can be found in permanent collections such as the State Universisty of New York, at Buffalo, the Library of Congess, and Vatican City, as well as countless private collections worldwide.
A former teacher and artist-in-residence, he lives and works in the rural mountain setting of southwestern Virginia with his family.
Etchings and color laser prints are floated on 10" x 12" mattboard and shrinkwrapped. Museum quality matting and framing is also
available.
At right: Brotherly Counsel, a 4" circular original etching, is $50.
An enlargement of the village from this plate shows the minute details of these prints.
Copperplate etching is the second oldest family of printmaking, the intaglio process, which dates from the mid 15th century. Well known masters of this medium include Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt,
William Blake and M. C. Esher.
The process involves scratching a copper plate thru a thin resin to expose the metal. What the artist sees is a negative; bright metal against the dark wax background, and reversed left-to-right. After the drawn plate is submerged in acid to eat lines into the scratches, the wax is removed. Ink is forced into the lines and carefully wiped off the surface to leave ink only in the lines of the image. Dampered acid-free paper and a felt blanket are placed over the inked plate and slowly rolled under tremendous pressure through the press to transfer the image to the paper. The resulting image has a three-dimensional raised line embossed effect characterized by greater permanence and quality of detail than the best pen and ink drawings.
Etching is the most time-consuming form of printmaking; each plate takes from fifty to hundreds of hours to make. The hand inking and wiping process has to be repeated for each individual impression of a copper plate, taking from twenty minutes to an hour or more
Numerous other designs are also available. For a free catalog, please request by email. First class shipping is $5 for the first print, $3 for each additional print thereafter within the same order.
At right: The Visitor - a 3" x 4" original etching, $45.
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