Hope's Art Journey

    For 30 years, I was a printmaker.  I mean a real printmaker who made the etchingplaces with acid and lines and engravers. Then, ink was forced into the delicate grooves, the plate (or plates)wiped clean with a tarlatan.  The platewas placed on the steel bed of a large etching press (pictured), dampened paperplaced on top and all of this was rolled through heavy rollers pushing the inkonto the paper.  If more than one colorwas used, registration marks were required. This was necessary for each original print.  The editions were small since the pressuregradually damaged the image.  They areconsidered original multiples, juried into high [...]