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Etching Without Acid

Cedric Green, an artist and printmaker concerned about his health and about the environment, describes how his technique has been transformed by the rediscovery of the old electrolytic plate-making processes, the creative application of some new chemical etching solutions, tinting and graining methods to intaglio plate-making.

Cedric Green's site on non-toxic electrolytic and electrochemical etching methods and guide to ecological and healthy printmaking:

http://www.greenart.info