Copper Engraving

Sebastian Leyh · Jan 8, 2009

Hallo everybody,

I`m new in this forum. I want to make my first post of an engraving. I copied a picture of Albrecht DÃ¼rer an German engraver who was born in 1470. I pinted out the picture and transfered it with a pencil and " Grafitpaper" on a wite painted copper plate ( 20x30mm). I used a manual 120Â° engraver.
The blackening and varnishing aren`t good. Please tell me onest waht you Think about it...

Greetings from Germany...

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Christopher Malouf · Jan 8, 2009

Very very nice!! That's a lot of hand pushing.

DÃ¼rer's work is outstanding and he was a brilliant man. Did you have to fold over the edges of the copperplate? It helps maintain the rigidity of the plate while working on it and if you plan on framing it. It definitely needs to be framed.

Chris

jetta77 · Jan 9, 2009

WOW! Looks pretty time consuming, makes you appreciate all of the old burin pushers who did'nt have our technology but sure had the human artistic drive and disipline.
Jeff

Mario Sarto · Jan 9, 2009

Hallo Sebastian,
das sieht phantastisch aus - wie lange hast Du dafÃ¼r gebraucht? KÃ¶nntest Du mir die Transfer-Methode etwas genauer beschreiben?

Mario

Sam · Jan 9, 2009

Hello Sebastian, and welcome to the Cafe! We're happy to have you join us with your interesting kind of engraving. You might be one of the only copperplate engravers here!
~Sam

SpiderCurt · Jan 9, 2009

Hi Sebastian

My German is not very good but it is good enough that I can say I agree with Mario's "das sieht phantastisch aus"!

Keep up the good work

Mack · Jan 9, 2009

My German is awful but I can say that is really cool in English. How's that? Mack

catnip · Jan 9, 2009

I did some copper plate engraving as an apprentice; nothing at all like what I see here. I think its excellent; and without using a threader too. It's very encouraging. I must have a try.

Scratchmo · Jan 9, 2009

This looks like a very ambitious project for such a young engraver. Copying the works of masters is a great way to learn too. I wonder if you are planning to pull any prints from this plate?

catnip said:
I did some copper plate engraving as an apprentice; nothing at all like what I see here. I think its excellent; and without using a threader too. It's very encouraging. I must have a try.

I think I have one of these "threaders" you're talking about, but I don't think it's complete. Do you have one, or have any info on them? A friend of mine made me one that does basically the same thing but it's completely different. Is there another name for these machines?

Roger Bleile · Jan 9, 2009

Scratchmo,

I think "threader" is what the British call a liner or parrallel line graver. I have seen the term used for a liner in a booklet by Geoffery Casbard.

CRB

catnip · Jan 10, 2009

Sorry scrachmo, i was thinking about a line graver, maybe a threader is a European term for it. tony

catnip · Jan 10, 2009

Hi, Sebastian.
Needed to have another look at your work. Have you filled the engraving in. If so could you tell what you used. Regards Tony

Sebastian Leyh · Jan 10, 2009

Thanks everybody for your feedback,

I don`t understand the word "threader" Is it another word for graver?
I used a 120Â° flat graver by Sam`s tutorial. Here is a picture of it:

For the transfer I needed 9-12. Thats when I realised I have to try a transfer method, presented on the forum. Engraving took me 20-30 ours.

@ catnip
I filled the engraving with black "refill ink" for a edding marker. I put the ink with a peece of plastic over the plate to make sure there isn`t too much ink on it . When it was dry i rubed over the plate with toilet paper fixed on a straight peece of steel. I put some "Nitro VerdÃ¼nnung" on the paper to remove the ink from the plate. You have to make sure the peece of steele or somtinh else is straigt so it wont remove the ink out of your engraved lines...

santos · Jan 10, 2009

Hi Sebastian ,

Very nice work

DÃ¼rer is a great source for inspiration.

Why havenâ€™t you cut a reverse image? The numbers would be reversed if you make an intaglio print of your plate

monk · Jan 11, 2009

welcome to the forum. as to my comments: simply fantastic work ! comes to mind. quite beautiful.

Sebastian Leyh · Jan 12, 2009

Printings are what these plates were made for, but i like to take a nice frame and but the copperplate at my wall. It lookes very good...

Nina · Aug 3, 2009

Hi Sebastian , sieht gut aus. Hast du das in solingen gelernt?

Arnaud Van Tilburgh · Aug 3, 2009

Welcome Sebastian, it looks nice what you posted, I was just wondering does a copperplate as it is meant to be printed, does not need to be mirrored?

arnaud

Kevin P. · Aug 4, 2009

Threader is another word for liner.
Kevin P.

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