Preparation: This is the part where you get the goodies together. Once you are completely prepared there will be no holding you back.

Setting Up: We make the dry mix, the etching bath and show you how to apply the environmentally safe ground to a plate.

Creating a line plate: With your safe ground on the plate and the magic copper sulphate mix you get busy with the etching needle.

Creating Tone: An amazing aspect of copper sulphate etch is the gorgeous rich tones, with plenty of oomph, you can master easily.

Stopout Etch & floor polish: In this interesting exercise we show you how to create an image by stopping out the negative spaces.

A humble Sharpie pen, a little sticker and masking tape manage to evoke an impression of the serenity of the Blue Nile.

Stopout Etch with Crayon: Wax crayon can create intriguing marks & textures especially with the addition of Copha or Crisco.

Stopout Etch High Flow Acrylic Paint & Crayon: Drypoint and wax crayon used in the first plate, followed by High Flow paint & crayon second plate.

Collagraph to add Colour: The collagraph plate enhances an existing etching plate and brings this mediocre print to life.

À la poupée and Colour: Here three different etched plates given a new life with colour & the à la poupée technique.

The perils of Polly's pansy tea set plate: An uplifting tale of how a plate that looked like it was going to be a total disaster got rescued.

Foul Bite to your advantage: Normally we don’t want 'foul biting' but our student, Jim, changed all that and we show you his secret.