The Relief and Intaglio Printmaking Studio uses non-toxic materials for our mordants, cleaning products, grounds, varnishes, and ink. We use sustainable practices and safer methods to create etchings in copper and with Tetrapak matrices.

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What is a SDS (MSDS) ?

Click to image to find out.

James Ensor, Self-Portrait in 1960, Etching (1886).

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The following images contain links to SDS forms and other places to inform your practice as printmakers.

Sue Coe, Kaposi’s Sarcoma, 1993.

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‘Wood,’ David Maisel, (Fifth St. John’s Pond, Maine), 1986.

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Why don’t we use polymer plates more?  Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools. 

Linoleum isn’t so bad.

Each of the items on the list below have links embedded in them that lead to their Safety Data Sheets.

Copper

Linoleum

Burnt Plate Oil

Ferric Chloride

B.I.G. Hard Ground

Golden Stop-Out Varnish

Lascaux Stop-Out Resist

Z-Acryl Hard Ground Emulsion

Z-Acryl Stop-out Varnish

Calcium Carbonate

Magnesium Carbonate

Sodium Carbonate

Process Yellow GC ink

Opaque White GC ink

Stiff Black GC ink

Ultramarine Blue GC ink

Vine Black GC ink

Burnt Umber GC ink

Burnt Sienna GC ink

Daniel Smith Inks MSDS

Easy Wipe Compound

Speedball Block Printing Ink (water-soluble)

Copper

Solarplate MSDS

Gum Arabic

Citric Acid Powder

Soda Ash

How to use B.I.G. intaglio ground

Lump Rosin   (Pine resin)