Engraving on metal plate

It takes place on a metal plate or directly using a tool, or indirectly by the action an acid. Direct technique: engraving, drypoint, or cradle, scraper, burnisher for mezzotint, roulette regular or irregular in the way of indirect pencil Technique: etching, aquatint, sugar, soft ground.

Gilding

There are two techniques of gilding to use depending on the nature of the support to Brown: The oil gilding (admixture to brown) is used on metal, monuments, gates, walls, domes, roofs churches, plaster figurines and lead ... The water gilding: the admixture of water used on wood or plaster to the inside and the bole is used for icons, frames, and wood.

Lithography

Lithography (drawing on stone) is distinguished from other forms of printing by the fact that there is neither hollow nor relief. It is made from a limestone in which the artist draws directly to the pencil.

Wood engraving

The woodcut or engraving in relief, is a technique of separating the parts of the non inked inked plate of wood. Etched with knives or gouges in the form of U or V. Is deposited with a hard roll with a thin layer of ink and is printed by hand (in the buffer, the baren ...) or to the press.

Lino engraving

This is the same process as woodcut except that linoleum (soft material) makes the job easier. With this facility, we made a technical school use. However, jobs that have great artists, especially Picasso and Matisse, gives the lino, a place in which the print is far less than the woodcut.