Hellenistic amethyst intaglio depicting a maenad holding a thyrsus in one hand and a phallus in the other, dated to the 2nd century BCE. The intaglio is set in a modern gold ring.

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This week in our are these magnificent gemstones, discovered in 1885 in the main drain leading from the spring. These Roman intaglios were made to fit into finger rings, perhaps washed out of the settings while their owners were bathing 💍

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Hippopotamus devouring of a crocodile, 1st century carnelian intaglio in latter setting. https://t.co/JJ4PG7zcGd
I remembered the ring, Alexandria, Hellenistic period, 2nd-1st C BCE https://t.co/bnNGiOAvk9

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FEATURING THE WORK OF ANTONIA ENTHOVEN
ArtSpring artist Antonia was awarded the Angela Knowles prize for Intaglio Printing at the PrintFest7 exhibition Sevenoaks. Last Year she showed two of her etchings in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Mall Galleries in London.

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As 11th April is the birthday of Septimius Severus - here are two 3rd Century AD intaglios of him with his family. The first from shows him facing his son Caracalla & behind them, Geta faces Julia Domna. The 2nd from the Hermitage Museum shows him & his 2 sons.

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I love sighthound's and most of you probably know...I have three of them. A whippet called Betsy and two Podenco Canario's rescued from the Canary Islands. ⁠


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The next one-day workshop I'm teaching is &
Very direct, very intuitive process. I like to try and get the results looking as much like etchings as possible.
See courses on https://t.co/ocE4hFJtsM for details

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Hello! My name is WILKE, and I am a painter, printmaker, digital artist.
1. "I Love It Here", acrylic on paper
2. "Olympus: A Meeting of the Gods on High", copperplate intaglio etching
3. "Quixotica", digital painting
4. "Machine Spring", digital photomontage

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Now a couple of gems from Artist /Illustrator /Etcher Marina Terauds. I think this is a class act. She creates intaglio hand pulled prints and I am thrilled to find her work

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Happy Birthday Maud Hunt Squire!

Squire was an American painter and printmaker.
She gained notice for her color intaglio prints and her work in colored pastels, and was active as a book illustrator beginning while she was still a student.

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hello, I'm an illustrator and writer with experience in games and interactive fiction. I'm an intaglio printmaker mainly but I also paint, draw and write & illustrate my own short stories in the gothic tradition.
https://t.co/5j6nsjz0jy
https://t.co/bTPW2rqLoL

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PRINTMAKING TASTER WORKSHOPS
Screenprinting, Relief Printing and Intaglio

Saturday afternoons in Feb 2020
7-10pm

Once completed you can come and use the studio as an open access user - membership includes five free hours in the studio. £5/hr after that.
https://t.co/Bs55HjJY5O

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Sophie: “Les Roses” was made by stipple engraving and finished by hand-coloring - not always by Redoute himself; this was very much a team work.
Stipple engraving uses dots of various sizes to create tone in an intaglio print.

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traditional fine art intaglio printmaker, type based digital illustrator, collage artist, and pen and ink portraiture. That’s me:)

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This weekend I am taking part in the 7th - 13th July 2019. Simply titled 'Lurcher' which is an original dry point etching. ⁠


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Our Japanese Vinyl: Experimental Relief course is back on July 31st! This 4 day course teaches you how to make a wide variety of marks in Japanese vinyl using lino and woodcut tools, & how to print with relief, intaglio & reduction printing processes. https://t.co/Biw1yvuVQe

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Intaglio: a hippopotamus devouring of a crocodile, Rome, 1st century (in the setting of a later date) https://t.co/ImgBV1uIlR

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Dean Jackson Meeker (b 18-5-1920)
'Icarus' (1964)
Intaglio collagraph on paper

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Lingscheit captures the intimacy--and sometimes wrangling 😉--involved in a family portrait. Bring you brood to Family Day at the Museum on April 27!

Carrie Lingscheit, "Jackelope Family," 2018. Intaglio (etching, aquatint, spit bite). 12" x 16."

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