Tracy Hill (formerly Griffin)

Research project with Emma Gregory Print studio manager of The Bluecoat in Liverpool.

In September 2009 Emma Gregory and I began research project to test the acrylic aquatint products currently on the market.
After continual battles with the new products available we decided to try to establish which products would be best suited to our print studios.
We have been funded by CADG at UCLAN to undertake the testing of the following products:

Lascaux aquatint solution
Hunt speedball screenfiller
Sandpaper onto soft ground
badger aquatint solution
Lascaux tusche wash/spray
Lascaux screen filler

However we are aware that like Emma and Myself many printmakers have already been working with these acrylic aquatints and have created reciepes for themselves. We are very keen to include these in our tests and we have put a request out via emails to printmaking studios for reciepes and advice concerning the use of aquatints.

We are currently in the middle of testing and will be documenting fully the results and findings of our testing.
These will be published on a web page:
a link to this page will be available soon.