Method of engraving in which lines or textures are bitten, or etched, into a metal plate, usually copper, with acid.

Like drawing on the plate in the same direct way as with pen or pencil on paper.

The first etchings date from the early 16th century, but the basic principle had been used earlier for the decoration of armour.

Among the pioneers of the medium were Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Dürer, and Parmigianino; the greatest of all etchers wasRembrandt. In the 20th century, etching was especially popular for book illustration.

The ambahan, a poetic literary form

composed of seven-syllable lines used to convey messages through metaphors and images. The ambahan has remained in

existence today chiefly because it is etched on bamboo tubes using ancient

Southeast Asian, pre-colonial script called surat Mangyan

Antique Etched

Bamboo Tribal

Medicinal Mortar &

Pestle

Flute etching patterns

employed by Bontok

craftsmen

Bamboo nose flutes from the C. E. Smith

collection. All of these

are probably of Bontok

manufacture

The Hanunóo

script is one of

three forms of the

baybayin that

is still in use today.

Herbert W. Krieger's

The Collection of

Primitive Weapons and

Armor of the Philippine

Islandsin the United States

National Museum

Smithsonian Institution;

United States National

Museum, Bulletin 137 (1926)

1. Fill the desired shape with light and bright colored crayons. Do not use dark colors.

2. When the space is completely covered with bright colors, use a black or dark purple crayon to color the entire space .

You can also use black acrylic paint as a second layer.

3. Using any pointed tip (pencils, bbq sticks, paper clips), draw on the black area of the paper and you will see the color underneath.