The Stepwedge is Brilliant Andrew! Thanks for this wonderful instructional video.

A great graphician and wonderful teacher is a precious combination. Thank You so much, Andrew. God bless You!

I love watching your tutorials! Thank you for sharing your skill and knowledge!

These are great techniques. Thank you indeed, Andrew.

My god, so much of tiny tips and info. THANK YOU SO MUCH. God bless you.

I have always adored Martin Lewis! As a printmaker, I have a home studio which is quite small, so this technique is perfect for me! Thank you!

Thanks! Very, very interesting ideas for work. Greetings from Slovakia....

This is amazing, I was always baffled how Martin Lewis managed to get the amazing dark tones.

Very Impressive. Loved the mezzotint. Great tutorial!

Very very cool. Couldn’t you straight up mezzo tint with just sandpaper directly on the plate with no ground? I’m going to give it a shot but I love how you stacked sandpaper to create gradual pressure. This is great stuff. The first mezzotint i did was with a zippo lighter steel rolled around the surface and then I burnished with whatever i could and it came out great for a first try. So this is incredible. I doubt i’ll have access to an aquatint box any time soon and it sounds like a huge hassle compared to your sandpaper technique and like i said, i will try it with and without ground. I find I can use plain sheets of aluminum sheetmetal and get a decent print while experimenting. Obviously copper is much tougher and a more satisfying metal all around but I am going to got try your sandpaper grading technique directly onto the metal and with ground to see what works better. Thanks for making this.

gREAT tutorial!thank you so much!

Great video, love the tips. Will like to see more alternatives to printing without acid, drypoint!

Very interesting! An other easy way to make an aquatint or a maniere noir! Thank you!!!

AMAAAAZING!!! I hate using nitric acid or ferrochloride.... but using emory paper is pure genius!!! Thanks!

Excited to try this. Is there a reason / difference in using emery paper rather than sandpaper?

Hi Andrew I love the videos . One correction though Martin Lewis was an Australian who did a lot of good work in the US. He came from Cstlelmaine Melbourne ,Victoria .

thanks for the video! May I ask why you use multiple blankets?

What is the red varnish made of?

Hello Andrew! Thank you very much for this tutorial, I have some questions: What kind of cover does the copper plate have? Would this process work in iron? As the rest of the image is achieved by bruising and in iron is difficult to achieve, it occurs to me that I could try to re-paint the drawing, to block the granulate and thus to preserve white and gray in sussive dives (like traditional aquatint) Where I live is cheaper and easier to get iron than copper, and in my faculty we work with that material. I would be interested to propose this technique in class.

Hi Norman, yes it’s the European P grade.

Thanks Andrew. One question - the grades of emery paper - what does 500, 120 etc mean? Do you mean the European P500, P120 etc or are you using the US (CAMI) version? (see Wikipedia 'Sandpaper').

I am wondering if this only works with the BIG hard ground or any hardground...

Are you able to accomplish an aquatint using sandpaper on standard hardground? You mention BIG. I assume that is a more nontoxic material?

Did you ever make a demo on how to marble a plate? Thank you.

Will ya might indicate where to get the sandpaper the size used in the video?

Bonjour , merci pour vos conseils ; quel produit utiliser pour enlever le BIG de la plaque? merci pour votre réponse amicalement Mireille.

Sandpaper trace aquatint!