"Calendula and Fern"
by Arnold Iger
Hand Signed and Numbered by the artist
"Calendula and Fern"
Unframed
Limited Edition Etching
Hand Signed by the artist
Paper Size: 30" x 22"
Image Size: 22-1/2" x 17-1/2"
Edition Number: Artist's Proof
Condition is Mint
100 percent guarantee of authenticity
Certificate of Authenticity is included
Gallery Retail : $250.00 unframed
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Arnold Iger
Iger a well-known artist has numerous years of education including two years at San Francisco's Academy of Art, a term at Japan's Oomato Foundation studying traditional Japanese art form, and three years in filmmaking and painting at the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute. Not just limited to art Iger, dabbles in printmaking, film, video, maskmaking, puppetry and design. His art work is displayed in galleries in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
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Etching
Definition:
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types of material. As a method of printmaking, it is, along with engraving, the most important technique for old master prints, and remains in wide use today. In a number of modern variants such as microfabrication etching and photochemical milling it is a crucial technique in much modern technology, including circuit boards.
In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needlewhere he or she wants a line to appear in the finished piece, so exposing the bare metal. The échoppe, a tool with a slanted oval section, is also used for "swelling" lines. The plate is then dipped in a bath of acid, technically called the mordant (French for "biting") or etchant, or has acid washed over it. The acid "bites" into the metal (it converts metal into salt solution and hydrogen) to a depth depending on time and acid strength, leaving behind the drawing skillfully carved into the wax on the plate. The remaining ground is then cleaned off the plate. For first and renewed uses the plate is inked in any chosen non-corrosive ink all over and the surface ink drained and wiped clean, leaving ink in the etched forms.
The
plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet
of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the
etched lines, making a print. The process can be repeated many times; typically
several hundred impressions (copies) could be printed before the plate shows
much sign of wear. The work on the plate can be added to or repaired by
re-waxing and further etching; such an etching (plate) may have been used in
more than one state.