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Evan Lindquist
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This engraving shows the tools that created it.
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Copper plate (with piece of carborundum paper peeking out below it),
Linen tester (a 10X magnifier for inspecting the points of burins),
Agate burnisher (to diminish scratches in plate surface),
Stippling tool (to make dots),
Several burins (square with bent shafts),
Triangular scraper (wrapped with tape to allow gripping closer to the point),
Several roulettes (to make dotted lines),
Several steel burnishers (some are wrapped with tape for gripping),
Hard and soft Arkansas stones covered with oil (for sharpening tools),
Etching needles. |
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Engraving Tools
Burin engraving, 1980
11.3 x 16 inches (288 x 404 mm)
catalog number 116
copyright © 1980
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After publishing the edition of Engraving Tools, I took up the plate again, and introduced a chessboard to the composition, a visual reminder that creating an engraving is similar to playing chess.
Plan ahead or get boxed into a bad situation. The plate, image, and tools conspire together to create unforeseen circumstances that can get out of control quickly.
Creating an engraving, like chess, is fighting one battle after another. Each battle is a symptom of "creativity". Like warfare, you must have a strategy and know where you want to go, solving each problem along the way. The result in the end will never be what you expected.
It feels good to win. |
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- Engraving Tools and Chess Board
- Burin engraving, 1980
- (Second state of Engraving Tools)
- 11.3 x 16 inches (288 x 404 mm)
- catalog number 117
- copyright © 1980
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- (Copper plate: Collection, The University of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Art and Archaeology.)
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After finishing the battles of the engraving tool compositions, I took up the tools again to show how the burin is used.
The burin is cutting a line. The triangular scraper lies in wait to scrape burs from the plate.
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Graven Image
Burin engraving, 1980
15.6 x 10.4 inches (397 x 315 mm)
catalog number 118
copyright © 1980
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More about the technique of engraving a copperplate. |
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