Drawing with acid

Usage examples of etching.

This - well, it was straight from the etchings and aquatints of the City, the bucolic world as seen through the eyes of Paradys.

Miss Pansy Freake Todhunter was an etcher, and in that genre her work was fine, though no more thrilling -- to me at least -- than etchings usually are.

I had known her only as an etcher, and I am not fond of etchings, and particularly not little four-by-six things showing old Toronto houses of no special interest except, presumably, to an etcher.

He paused once at the door ked back, forever etching in her mind the image scraping for dignity, a man ultimately alone.

I think that outside the House of God even in a cemetary there is no result just process and that here at last, with my love holding me, each day might be filled with all things and all colors and the eternal repetition of all colorful things renewed, and I feel that it just might be that in the flow of time the layers of bitterness might begin to peel away, until bitterness itself had become but a faint etching on a glass wall, layers of etched glass walls leading down a life toward a latency, a summer-game, a summer of fun, and as I struggle to rest the layers of bitterness are beginning to peel off, are peeling off, leaving me homing upriver toward innocence and nakedness and rest, as in the time before the House of God with Berry thank God for Berry and except for Berry where would I be for without her I could never learn to love as once I did love and will love and love.

The litho and etching presses separate the main work area from the front desk, where I talk with clients.

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The junior lieutenant quickly moved away from the scope, and Krakov grasped the horizontal periscope grips somehow reassured by the feel of the antiskid etching on the cylindrical grips.

God knew how many mysteries of Christendom a thousand years ago, kept alive on the looms of the twenty-first century because they went so well with the compound arches and rib-rife vaulted ceilings, the random Chaucerian casement windowpane etchings of ancient Gothic buildings erected en masse in the 1920s.

Without wax and acid, a copper block is a more or less useless thing for etching but there was always drypoint, my first love, and he had a drypoint needle he could sell me.

Fortunately, in the etchings, Goya is very seldom tempted to talk in anything else.

On the walls, prints of Victorian etchings of life on the island, the natives all done up in Lapp clothes -- huge fur-lined anoraks with fancy stitching -- harpoons in hand, sledges, dogs, whale hunting, church, life.

A large dark green plate secured billboardlike halfway up one wall was filled with oversize abstract etchings.

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Monk glanced around the walls at a number of very striking paintings and etchings, several of them of dramatic railway works, towering cliffs on either side of gorges carved by swarming teams of navvies, tiny figures against the grandeur of the scenery.