https://ritualdust.com/tags/mezzotint/ Recent content in mezzotint on Ritual dust Hugo -- gohugo.io en-ca Copyright © 2008–2024, Lizbeth Poirier-Morissette; all rights reserved. Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/print/mezzotint-printmaking/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/print/mezzotint-printmaking/ Mezzotint is a printing technique in the intaglio family (printing in which the ink is contained in the recesses of the printing plate, opposite of relief printing) in which a metal plate is textured with thousands of little dots and then scraped and burnished to create areas of light in the image. In contrast with other intaglo print techniques, the image is created from dark to light as the plate once prepared with it’s rough texture will print as a rich even black.