aquatint - An intaglio, etching, and tonal printing process in which a porous ground allows acid to penetrate to form a network of small dots in the plate, as well as the prints made by this process. Aquatints often resemble wash drawings. Any pure whites are stopped out entirely before etching begins, then the palest tints are bitten and stopped out, and so on as in etching. This process is repeated many times until the darkest tones (deepest recesses in the plate) are reached. The white areas of the plate have been totally stopped out and the darkest areas are the deepest bitten thus holding the most ink. The etched plate is inked, wiped and then printed. Each impression requires these steps.

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