Abstract:
Mezzotint can respond the tone of image well. The working has precision and finely. The technique in graphic art is not etching for making the plate, but it use the mezzotint rocker which one is spiky. The plate is pressed to be the dense and prim traces, and it can print equable black. After that, we scratch the plate by the Burnisher, until the color change to be white tone. The special character of this technique, we will see the area of white tone to have the dense and prim traces. The trace consist the Mezzotint Rocker, and it cannot copy by any technique.
In the past, it is very labyrinthine when we teach in the class of graphic arts. The price of equipment is very expensive, especially the Mezzotint Rocker. However, we apply the instrumentality easier. We make the plate by etching, until it has the black tone. And it is nearly to make the plate by the Mezzotint Rocker. After that, we can make the white tone as seem as the instrumentality make the Mezzotint by aquatint technique.