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Fish jumping

Fish jumping

Serial No. 1080007 / ed. 100 /
Technique: copper engraving by burin /
plate size: 11.7 x 10.7cm /
sheet size: 34 x 26 cm /
paper: Gampi (very thin traditional Japanese handmade paper) on Velin Arches 250g/M2 /
total engraving hours: 117.3 hours /
Engraved on Dec 29, 2016 to Feb 14, 2017 /

Note: technique “copper engraving by burin” is the oldest technique of printmaking. It is the process to engrave lines directly on the surface of metal plate by hand with burin (engraving tool with sharp edges) without any chemical process like “etching”, though it belongs to the same Intaglio category as “etching”. The most famous historical artist of this technique is Dürer

Size
11.7cm x 10.7cm
Prints
20
Technique
Etching
Apples around in the air Like a Saint Sebastian of Schongauer Fish jumping Round opening behind
Masaaki Sugita

Masaaki Sugita

Masaaki Sugita was born in Shiga 1955. He graduated from Nihon University, College of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He got all the techniques about art by self-taught, those are drawing, watercolor, oil and tempera painting and printmaking, while he was working as a mechanical engineer engaged in department of develop and design of automatic machines under Japanese companies after graduation. He was working long time for watercolor Landscape painting during 1989 to 2007, is his main work. Now he concentrates on printmaking and participates regularly in group exhibition since 2010.

Birthdate: 27/04/1955

Nationality: Japan

Exhibitions:
  • 2022 BIMPE 11th (last edition) Canada
  • Graphica Creativa 2022 (Finland)
  • 2022 18th International Competition of Small Graphic and Exlibris Ostrów Wielkopolski POLAND
  • The 17th International Triennial Small Graphic Forms, Poland - Łódź 2020
  • the Triennale de Gravure de Liège 2021

Website: sugita-art-studio.com

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