Fred Wilson
Welcome to Magical-Secrets.com, a website hosted by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, for printmakers and people who love prints. Crown Point has two aspects:
- An etching publishing program in which we produce and exhibit the work of five or six invited artists a year. You can see our published etchings at www.crownpoint.com.
- A program available to all that includes summer etching workshops, a series of books about printmaking, a store that sells printmaking supplies, and this website, www.Magical-Secrets.com.
Artists Talking
You can see and hear artists talking about artmaking and printmaking. Click on the names in the list below.
Featured Video: Julie Mehretu
Featured Printmaking Supply
Drypoint Kit
Have your own art printed at Crown Point Press! This kit contains basic supplies for anyone who would like to begin making prints, or to give the gift of printmaking to a friend or family member. Use the needle tool to make drypoint lines directly in your plate, then send the plate back to Crown Point Press in the same package using the prepaid label. We will ink the plate in black, hand-wipe it, and print it on softly textured 100% rag Somerset paper. You will receive two 15” x 11” superlative quality prints! Your two prints and the plate will be mailed back to you within two weeks of the printing date. A limited number of kits are available at this time; however an additional quantity will be released in the spring.
Read more about the drypoint kit »
Browse the new Printmaking Supplies section of our online store.
In the Bookstore
Magical Secrets about Aquatint: Spit Bite, Sugar Lift and Other Etched Tones Step-by-Step
by Emily York, with appendices: Printing the Crown Point Way by Kathan Brown and Using Acid to Bite Plates by Catherine Brooks
Pre-order now in our online store.
Magical Secrets about Line Etching and Engraving: The Step-by-Step Art of Incised Lines
by Catherine Brooks, with an Appendix on Printing by Kathan Brown
Available now in our online store.
Magical Secrets about Thinking Creatively: The Art of Etching and the Truth of Life
by Kathan Brown
Available now in our online store.
