Artists quickly realized that the different properties of wood and metal could be used to express in new ways what they saw around them. Although I started out as a painter, once I took my first class in intaglio printmaking, I was hooked. The process of transferring an idea onto a metal plate, working and reworking the plate until the final image merges with my mental picture, fascinates me endlessly. This translation can be accomplished in many ways, but to me none is more challenging than the mezzotint, from the grounding of the copperplate over many hours to the scraping and polishing of the image to the final inking and printing. For additional prints by Martha Zappe, click here .
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