Clare Wilson reveals some of the earliest known human mark-making, possibly pushing back the beginning of the history of art (15 September, p 7). I am irritated, though, by the use of “etching ...

Workshop and exhibition: The art of etching water revisited . Titled “Youth Connect” the programme also aims at promoting artists from rural areas, who have not gotten appreciation ...

Alli Katz uses the white knobs on her red Etch-a-Sketch to transform the likes of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” and the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” into a mechanical masterpiece.

The art is painted on using the same grease ink or crayon as for a lithograph. The greased or crayoned areas become opaque and the design area is open. A squeegee-type device forces ink through ...