What Is Engraving Art?
Engravings have been around as long as humans have been doing art. In stone, wood, metals, buildings and printing, it's as popular today as it was historically. Nearly anyone can do their own engraving art--to use as a template for multiple prints or copies (for T-shirt designs, for example) or to create a piece of personal artwork to have in your home.
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Types
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Engraving art has been used for illustrations and portraits, telling stories on buildings (the Notre Dame is quite famous for its multiple-figured engravings) and in printing presses. The images in Shakespeare's collections and most musical masterpiece copies were all done by engraving.
Features
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Engravings can be made in stone, metals or even wood. It's made much easier for the amateur in modern days with specialized kits.
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Modern Engraving
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Engraving art typically involves indenting or cutting into sheets of precious metals, such as gold or copper, to create a template for printing. The focus of the art is to make a perfect plate for copying the images more than once, and modern artists use engraving art for limited copies as art images themselves.
Tools
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Professional engravers have a few tools and some protective gear they use for engraving: drills and bits of various sizes, engravers (electric/glass), masks to prevent inhalation of glass, stone or metal, protective goggles and surgical gloves, to prevent hand oils from ruining the piece.
Famous Ties
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The two most famous engravers from history are Albrecht Durer and Paul Revere, who was an esteemed blacksmith.
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