{"id":1518,"date":"2018-01-16T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2018-01-26T13:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T21:59:37","slug":"new-grounds-the-manual-for-non-toxic-etching-by-regina-held-and-ray-maseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"New Grounds: The Manual for Non-Toxic Etching by Regina Held and Ray Maseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/16423957\/book\/142298663\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/1502746131.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"New Grounds: The Manual for Non-Toxic Etching by Regina Held and Ray Maseman\" width=\"136\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This books is a text for a class taught by New Grounds.  But it does stand on its own very well.  <\/p>\n<p>The book start off with a historical introduction, then chapters describing techniques to etch and print a plate.  After that it goes on to describe different techniques to create and apply grounds: hardground, aquatint, spit bite, softground, crayon softground, liftground, Crisco liftground, color proofing, Chine Coll\u00e9 and finally curing the print.  Each chapter goes into step-by-step details to create the ground, etching, timing considerations and finally some common problems and their solutions.  <\/p>\n<p>This is a great book for beginners as well as intermediate-level printers.  Maybe advanced, I can&#8217;t speak to that.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This books is a text for a class taught by New Grounds. But it does stand on its own very well. The book start off with a historical introduction, then chapters describing techniques to etch and print a plate. After that it goes on to describe different techniques to create and apply grounds: hardground, aquatint, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}