Download - Teaching Crayon Etching
Method of engraving in which lines or textures are bitten, or etched, into a metal plate, usually copper, with acid.
Like drawing on the plate in the same direct way as with pen or pencil on paper.
The first etchings date from the early 16th century, but the basic principle had been used earlier for the decoration of armour.
Among the pioneers of the medium were Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Dürer, and Parmigianino; the greatest of all etchers wasRembrandt. In the 20th century, etching was especially popular for book illustration.
The ambahan, a poetic literary form
composed of seven-syllable lines used to convey messages through metaphors and images. The ambahan has remained in
existence today chiefly because it is etched on bamboo tubes using ancient
Southeast Asian, pre-colonial script called surat Mangyan
Antique Etched
Bamboo Tribal
Medicinal Mortar &
Pestle
Flute etching patterns
employed by Bontok
craftsmen
Bamboo nose flutes from the C. E. Smith
collection. All of these
are probably of Bontok
manufacture
The Hanunóo
script is one of
three forms of the
baybayin that
is still in use today.
Herbert W. Krieger's
The Collection of
Primitive Weapons and
Armor of the Philippine
Islandsin the United States
National Museum
Smithsonian Institution;
United States National
Museum, Bulletin 137 (1926)
1. Fill the desired shape with light and bright colored crayons. Do not use dark colors.
2. When the space is completely covered with bright colors, use a black or dark purple crayon to color the entire space .
You can also use black acrylic paint as a second layer.
3. Using any pointed tip (pencils, bbq sticks, paper clips), draw on the black area of the paper and you will see the color underneath.