Love to know what are the types of engraving/etching?

Engraving and etching are popularly used nowadays, because it gives beautification and uniqueness to the material that can also be called a master piece.

Wood Engraving – this will require the creation of a relief image on a block of wood just by cutting away the parts. This kind of design is directly drawn into the wooden block and then the all parts of it are cut away to leave only the design. One the surface has been rise the image will be the result of the engraving.

Copper and Steel Engravings – this kind of engraving were made by incising a design into a metal plate. The image of this are generally incised into the matrix in a series of lines, and the term line engraving are sometimes used.

Etchings – the concept of this type of engraving are similar to copper and steel engravings, but they have a main differences and that is the image are being engraved in the plate with the used of acid.

Lithography – this is the type of engraving that was created by drawing an image into the stone or popularly known to be called stone drawing, or a metal plate using a grease crayon or a grease ink that was called tusche. The process of this was based on the principle that the grease and water don’t mix.

• Chromolithograph this is a colored lithograph with some colors that are printed from a separate stone with the image that are composed from those colors.

• Tinted lithograph – this is the image is printed from one stone and which it has wash color for tinting applied from one or two other stones. This is a pantograph process and there were no plate mark is created when the lithograph is printed.

Aquatint – the process of this are similar to etching, and the acid material is grainy. This graininess was created by dissolving resin in spirit, applying this to a metal plate and heats it. The spirit will evaporates while the resin will left stuck to the metal plate. This will create the effect of the graininess to the plate and will provide more textured effect.

Stipple – this kind of print was created from a metal plate in which the design has been produced using a different sized small dots grouped more or less that are closely together in order to create areas of tone.

• Stipple etching is made in the same manner of line etching. But its design is composed in the waxy ground with dots created by an etching needle or some other tools.
• Stipple engraving is created also on the same manner of line engraving, but the design was engraved into the plate using only dots that was made with stippling burin. This stipple is an intaglio process, so the prints are made in this kind of manner will really have a plate mark.

Mezzotint – this was thought as the inver5se of the other intaglio processes. This was created using from black to white, rather than a vice versa. In this type of engraving the metal plate is worked using a rocker, which it roughens the entire surface of the plate with some tiny holes and burrs.