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# Magical Secrets

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- [Summer Workshop Application 2020](https://magical-secrets.com/summer-workshop-application-2020/) - 2020 CROWN POINT PRESS: SUMMER ETCHING WORKSHOP APPLICATION We don't ask to see examples of your art as part of your application because, on principle, we don’t make judgments about the art of our workshop participants, either before or during the workshops. For all new and returning applicants, please send an email to Sasha Baguskas
- [Scraping and Burnishing](https://magical-secrets.com/scraping-and-burnishing/) - A scraper is a wedge-shaped tool with a knife blade at each edge that is used to scrape away metal, usually to remove marks incised in the plate. The scraper leaves marks of its own that must then be burnished and polished if the formerly marked plate area is to be made smooth enough not
- [Julie Mehretu's Radiant Secrets](https://magical-secrets.com/julie-mehretus-radiant-secrets/) - Julie Mehretu's print, Unclosed, from her 2007 project at Crown Point press, has an allover pattern of fine radiating lines in shifting color that changes across the print. How was this aspect of the print achieved? Mehretu created the radiating lines in hard ground etching, which is where the artist draws with a point through a hard

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- [Workshops](https://magical-secrets.com/workshops/) - Crown Point Press Etching Workshops Every summer, Crown Point Press offers traditional etching workshops for all skill levels. Instruction focuses on getting good results from the medium; aesthetic advice is not given. Our June sessions for 2026 are all full! Read our FAQ page for answers to your questions.
- [About](https://magical-secrets.com/about/)
- [Kathan Brown Extended Bio](https://magical-secrets.com/about/kathan-brown-extended-bio/) - Kathan Brown (1935-2025), with her then-husband Jeryl Parker, founded Crown Point Press in 1962 in a storefront space in Richmond, California, across the bay from San Francisco. The couple had met while both were studying etching in London, and in 1962 were living in a flat behind the store with their year-old son Kevin. Kathan
- [Master Printers](https://magical-secrets.com/about/master-printers/)
- [FAQs for Summer Workshops](https://magical-secrets.com/workshops/2800-2/) - FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) What etching techniques are taught during the summer workshops? During the Crown Point summer workshops, the etching studio is open for participants to use any of the print techniques Crown Point uses regularly (excluding photogravure and photoetching). These techniques include hard ground and soft ground and drypoint; the aquatint processes of
- [Featured Item](https://magical-secrets.com/home/featured-item/) - Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott This is the most comprehensive volume devoted to the life and work of pioneering African American artist Robert Colescott (1925-2009). The catalog accompanied the largest traveling exhibition of Colescott's work ever mounted, and was organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati in 2020. The exhibition traveled
- [Featured Studio Tip](https://magical-secrets.com/featured-book/) - Tearing Down Your Prints: Step by Step a useful description of how tear down in the Crown Point studio Click to Learn!
- [Studio](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/)
- [Studio Suppliers](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/list-of-suppliers/) - Asphaltum, burnt plate oil, gum arabic, liquid hard ground, whiting, lump rosin and the two kinds of blankets we use (1/16th fine woven sizing catcher; 1/12th extra fine woven) Graphic Chemical (630) 832-6004 Charbonnel Ink MacPherson Art (415) 884-8090 Low-carbon iron for steel-facing We use #8928 K49, Grey Cast Iron Plate 10 inches x 2
- [What Paper Should I Use?](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/paper-plea-spend-well-bad-economy/) - If you are a student of etching, and you proof on newsprint, because it’s free or really cheap please believe me that you are not saving anything. You must buy good paper, both for proofs and final prints, even if it hurts you to do so. Let me tell you why. I was invited to
- [Sugar Lift: Our New and Improved Recipe](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/better-sugar-lift/) - Sugar Lift: Our New and Improved Recipe By Emily York A few years ago we realized our sugar lift wasn't lifting as well as we would like. We found the India ink we were using to be the culprit. We were using non-waterproof ink, but we thought there was likely an additive in it that
- [Making Your Own Red Oxide Paper](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/how-to-make-red-oxide-paper-for-use-in-transferring-a-drawing-onto-a-plate-before-spit-biting-with-aquatint/) - Transferring a Drawing onto a Plate Before Spit Biting with Aquatint Using Red Oxide Paper (homemade!) Carbon paper works well for transfers in other plate-making approaches, but if you use spit bite to etch the plate, the bite can be restrained by the transferred carbon, which can resist the acid and create an unwanted white line in
- [The Aquatint Box](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/the-aquatint-box/) - Crown Point Press’s aquatint box is a study 145 x 50 x 64½" plywood construction. It easily holds our largest plate size, 36x45". You can use these plans to build a box like ours or use them as a guide for building a box that suits your needs and studio size. A tall box, like
- [The Ventilated Downdraft Table](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/ventilated-downdraft-table/) - Crown Point Press uses a downdraft table for cleaning plates in the studio. It is a ventilated table that works by pulling air across its surface, then down into a well that is emptied by an exhaust fan installed on the building’s roof. The table is made of wood and can be any size that
- [Glossary](https://magical-secrets.com/process/glossary/) - Acid A water-soluble corrosive compound that erodes metal. It is used in intaglio platemaking in diluted strength to etch images into copper or zinc plates. Aquatint The most common method of creating tones in etching. Irregular grains of rosin (or another granular acid-resistant material) are applied to a plate, then the plate is heated, causing
- [Sugar Lift Aquatint](https://magical-secrets.com/process/aquatint/sugar-lift-aquatint/) - Sugar lift aquatint allows you to paint directly on a plate and have that image occur in the final print. The drawing is done with sugar syrup. Then several technical steps are performed in order to lift the sugar from the plate and substitute an aquatint before biting.
- [Tearing Down Your Prints: Step-by-Step](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/tearing-prints-step-step/) - The method we use at Crown Point Press for tearing down our prints allows you to get really nice, clean margins with a crisp torn edge. We use a stainless steel tear bar, and we sell the 24-inch bar in our bookstore and also online. See here. Nearly 100% of the time we print on
- [Managing Your Inks Step-by-Step](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/questions-and-advice/) - When an artist completes a print at Crown Point Press they sign an OKTP, which literally means, “Okay to Print.” Each print in the edition is held to the standards of the OKTP. In order to get consistent results during editioning, we need to keep careful track of the inks that were used to make
- [Ink: It's Not You, It's Me](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/questions-advice/) - When I received an inquiry about which black inks we use and how to properly use ink modifiers, oils and tack reducers it reminded me of the old breaking-up saying “it’s not you, it’s me.” I thought back to my college days and my battles trying to get my plates to print properly. In my mind
- [The Aquatint Oven](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/the-aquatint-oven/) - These are the construction and electrical plans for the Crown Point Press aquatint oven. The Crown Point Oven is a large, flat, insulated box with a heating element under a heavy piece of steel. The heating unit is controlled by a thermostat. One advantage of the customized aquatint oven is its ability to accommodate very
- [Woodblock Program](https://magical-secrets.com/about/woodblock-program/) - In Kyoto, Japan and the People's Republic of China Although Crown Point Press has specialized throughout its history in intaglio printing, we have also offered artists experiences with woodblock, a primary form of relief printing. Relief prints are printed from the surface of carved wooden blocks, linoleum, etched metal plates, or from any other material that
- [Aquatint](https://magical-secrets.com/process/aquatint/)
- [Aquatint Reversal](https://magical-secrets.com/process/aquatint/aquatint-reversal/) - Aquatint reversal is a way to create the tonal opposite of an existing plate, reversing white marks to black or vice versa. To reverse an aquatint, offset the original image onto a clean, blank plate. Then dust the entire plate with rosin. The ink from the original image will act as a stop-out and resist
- [Making a Registration Jig](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/make-registration-jig/) - You will need some scrap copper and access to a jump cutter. For a thorough discussion of registration technique see Magical Secrets about Aquatint by Emily York, Crown Point senior master printer. Terms Registration Bar: An L-shaped piece of copper, double-stick-taped to the left side of the press bed. (3M brand tape works best) TIP: If you
- [Julie Mehretu's Radiant Secrets](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/julie-mehretus-radiant-secrets/) - Julie Mehretu's print, Unclosed, from her 2007 project at Crown Point press, has an allover pattern of fine radiating lines in shifting color that changes across the print. How was this aspect of the print achieved? Mehretu created the radiating lines in hard ground etching. Mehretu wanted the lines to have a certain kind of color. "The
- [Monotype](https://magical-secrets.com/process/monotype/) - The word monotype means "one print" and normally to make one you would draw and/or paint on a clean plate or other smooth surface and then print the image. With no matrix to hold the ink, a second print cannot be exactly the same. At Crown Point, we try to reserve the designation "monotype" to mean
- [Roulette](https://magical-secrets.com/process/roulette/) - A roulette is a tool that has a small textured wheel at its drawing end. To use it, you roll it over the plate. It makes wide marks that hold ink, and usually they are accumulated to create a tone in a small area of the print.
- [Mezzotint](https://magical-secrets.com/process/mezzotint/) - Mezzotint is a process that starts with a ground that prints solid black. To make the image, you scrape and burnish into the dark area. To create a texture in a plate or an area of a plate, at Crown Point we sometimes use aquatint or another means of creating tooth, but traditionally you would
- [Engraving](https://magical-secrets.com/process/engraving/) - The word engraving is used generally to indicate that the grooves in a plate are made directly, without the use of acid. But engraving is also a technique with a precise meaning and a particular tool, called a burin. The burin has a v-shaped blade, and the artist pushes it through the metal rather than drawing
- [Drypoint](https://magical-secrets.com/process/drypoint/) - Drypoint lines are soft-looking, slightly fuzzy. Their character comes from the way they are drawn: the artist simply scratches the lines into the metal with a sharp point, and most of the metal removed by the tool stays at the edges of the marks, like furrows in a plowed field. Deep marks, made by pressing
- [Photoetching](https://magical-secrets.com/process/photo-etching/) - Photoetching transfers a photograph to an etching plate and is less complex than photogravure. A photoetching plate is etched to a single depth. In photoetching, the artist creates a positive transparency (from a photograph or by drawing on a transparent material like Mylar), and the printer exposes it against a plate coated with a light-sensitive
- [Gravure](https://magical-secrets.com/process/gravure/) - Direct gravure is a way of transferring a drawing or computer printout on Mylar or another transparent or translucent material to a printing plate. The plate is coated with a photosensitive ground and the Mylar drawing is pressed against it and exposed to light. A textured Mylar is available with tooth built into it, but
- [Flat Bite](https://magical-secrets.com/process/flat-bite/) - Flat bite, sometimes called open bite, is a non-linear plate area bitten without texture. Wide flat depressions, even if deeply bitten, will be wiped out in printing if there is no tooth in them. Ink accumulates at the edges, but in the center it is held only by the grain of the metal. The image will
- [Scraping and Burnishing](https://magical-secrets.com/process/scraping-and-burnishing/) - Scraping and burnishing are processes normally used to make corrections in images drawn on plates. Because the drawing is cut into the metal, in order to change it you must first cut away what is there. A scraper is faceted, with two sharp blades on each of three sides. You scrape it across the plate.
- [Wax Grounds](https://magical-secrets.com/process/grounds/) - Hard ground comes in a wax ball. Dab it over a clean and heated plate and use a brayer to roll it out until it is evenly distributed. Now you can use a sharp tool, called an etching needle, to open lines in the ground. The marks you make will be bitten when you submerge the
- [Process](https://magical-secrets.com/process/)
- [Water Bite Aquatint](https://magical-secrets.com/process/aquatint/water-bite/) - Water bite aquatint is a graded tone created by preparing a plate for aquatint, then submerging it in a bath of water and slowly adding acid as the bath is tipped. The acid bites gradually across the plate’s surface.
- [Soap Ground Aquatint](https://magical-secrets.com/process/aquatint/soap-ground-aquatint/) - Soap ground is also called white ground. Like all grounds, it is a way of protecting portions of a plate from acid. Soap, however, is imperfectly acid-resistant and the acid penetrates it in varying degrees. You draw with a paste made of soap flakes, linseed oil and water, and usually add an aquatint to provide
- [Spit Bite Aquatint](https://magical-secrets.com/process/aquatint/spit-bite-aquatint/) - Spit bite is an alternative to bath etching as a way of biting an aquatint. To draw your image, you paint acid on a plate prepared with rosin. The acid is diluted by water mixed with spit--or with gum arabic if you prefer. The acid bites wherever it touches the plate, showing brushstrokes, drips, and dots.
- [Nathan Oliveira's Supernatural Rust](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/nathan-oliveiras-supernatural-rust/) - The following question is answered by Emily York, Crown Point Senior Master Printer and author of the book Magical Secrets about Aquatint. Dear Emily, The [2005] Nathan Oliveira show [was] exquisite. Those luscious, deep, transparent backgrounds are most puzzling. How the hell did he do that? - Barry Peterson, Sausalito, CA Dear Barry, I was the printer
- [Blanket Bind](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/blanket-bind/) - This question is answered by Emily York, Crown Point Senior Master Printer and author of the book Magical Secrets about Aquatint Dear Emily, I am experimenting with spit bite with mixed results. I am worried that I’m picking up patterns from the blanket in the image. I want to get smoother gradations like I see
- [The Crown Point Ink Table](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/crown-point-ink-table/) - At Crown Point Press we ink and wipe our plates on a tall, heated stand. Our inking stand is about waist high and has a copper working surface that is lightly heated by a single hotplate burner. Working at an ergonomic station can really improve the quality of your prints, as you’re able to work
- [The Forced Air Print Dryer](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/forced-air-print-dryer/) - A fast and efficient method of drying prints was developed at Crown Point Press in the early 1970s, and is still in use here now. The Crown Point dryer uses corrugated cardboard stacked alternately with dense smooth cardboard (Upson Board) that can be interleaved with damp prints. The whole stack is then put under pressure and
- [Steel-Facing Tank](https://magical-secrets.com/studio/steel-facing-tank/) - Steel-facing, a form of electroplating, is a procedure in which a microscopically thin layer of pure iron is electrodeposited onto a copper plate. Zinc plates, often used for etching, cannot be steel-faced, although it is possible to copper-face a zinc plate and then steel-face it. Steel facing has many benefits for the printmaker, and
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## Videos

- [Laura Owens, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/laura-owens/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses craft and the work of artist Laura Owens. (2007)
- [Patricia Treib in the Crown Point studio, 2018 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/patricia-treib-in-the-crown-point-studio-2018-3-minutes/) - Watch this short video of the artist working on her 2018 etchings (2 minutes long)
- [Gay Outlaw in the Crown Point Studio (6 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/gay-outlaw-in-the-crown-point-studio-6-minutes/)
- [Rupy C. Tut at Crown Point Press, 2024 (5 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/rupy-c-tut-at-crown-point-press-2024-5-minutes/) - Rupy C. Tut works on her first etching project at Crown Point Press.
- [Mamma Andersson at Crown Point Press, 2013 (8 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/mamma-andersson-crown-point-press-2013/) - Mamma Andersson works on four etchings in the Crown Point Press studio, 2013.
- [Catherine Wagner at Crown Point Press (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/catherine-wagner-at-crown-point-press-3-minutes/) - Watch Catherine Wagner in the Crown Point studio working on her 2021 photogravure project.
- [Pia Fries at Crown Point Press, 2007 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/538/) - Swiss artist Pia Fries discusses working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [Drypoint Technique (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/drypoint-technique/) - This is an excerpt from the DVD included in the book Magical Secrets about Line Etching and Engraving: The Step-by-Step Art of Incised Lines by Catherine Brooks. Published by Crown Point Press. In this excerpt, Brooks demonstrates the drypoint process and shows artists using it.
- [Charline von Heyl: The Carefree Things, 2014 (20 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/charline-von-heyl-carefree-things-2014/) - See Charline von Heyl working on her prints in the Crown Point studio.
- [Matt Mullican at Crown Point Press (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/matt-mullican-at-crown-point-press-4-minutes/) - Watch Matt Mullican making prints in the Crown Point etching studio in 2020, and installing his gallery exhibition in 2021.
- [Alyson Shotz in the Crown Point studio, 2019 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/alyson-shotz-2-minutes/)
- [Alyson Shotz, 2013 (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/alyson-shotz-2013/) - Alyson Shotz creates the aquatints Sequent I and Sequent II at Crown Point Press in 2013.
- [Wayne Thiebaud in the Crown Point studio, 2019 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/wayne-thiebaud-in-the-crown-point-studio-2019-3-minutes/)
- [Leonardo Drew at Crown Point Press, 2015 (10 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/leonardo-drew-crown-point-press/) - This video is about Leonardo Drew working on an etching project at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [Marcel Dzama at Crown Point Press, 2015 (5 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/482/) - Marcel Dzama narrates a short video showing him in the Crown Point studio using spit bite aquatint and soft ground etching on copper plates.
- [Robert Bechtle at Crown Point Press, 2011 (5 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/robert-bechtle-crown-point-press-2011/) - Artist Robert Bechtle working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco to create a color soft ground etching with aquatint, 2011.
- [Darrren Almond in the Crown Point studio (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/darrren-almond-working-in-the-crown-point-studio-3-minutes/)
- [Wayne Thiebaud Working, 2017 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/wayne-thiebaud-working-2017-3-minutes/) - See Wayne Thiebaud working on his most recent etchings in the Crown Point studio.
- [Mary Heilmann in the Crown Point studio, 2017 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/mary-heilmann-crown-point-studio-2017-3-minutes/)
- [Tom Marioni at Crown Point Press, 2017 (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/tom-marioni-crown-point-press-2017/) - Watch this 4-minute video of Tom Marioni working on his 2017 etching series in the Crown Point studio.
- [Wayne Thiebaud, 2014 (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/wayne-thiebaud-2014/) - This four-minute video shows Wayne Thiebaud in the Crown Point Press etching studio.
- [John Chiara at Crown Point Press, 2016 (5 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/john-chiara-crown-point-press-2016/) - Watch John Chiara in the Crown Point studio at work during his second photogravure project in the fall of 2016. Visit the Crown Point gallery to see John Chiara: New Cityscapes, up through June 3.
- [Crown Point Press: Printing Demonstration (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/crown-point-press-printing-demonstration/) - Crown Point Press' founding director and master printer Kathan Brown prints a Wayne Thiebaud soft ground plate in real time. This is an excerpt from the DVD included in the book Magical Secrets about Line Etching and Engraving: The Step-by-Step Art Incised Lines.
- [Brad Brown at Crown Point Press, 1999 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/brad-brown-crown-point-press-1999/)
- [Laurie Reid at Crown Point Press, 2000 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/laurie-reid-crown-point-press-2000/) - Artist Laurie Reid discusses her 2000 print project at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [Gay Outlaw at Crown Point Press, 2001 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/gay-outlaw-crown-point-press-2001/) - Artist Gay Outlaw discusses working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2001.
- [Fred Wilson at Crown Point Press, 2004 (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/fred-wilson-crown-point-press-2004/) - Artist Fred Wilson describes printmaking at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2004.
- [Nathan Oliveira at Crown Point Press, 2005 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/nathan-oliveira-crown-point-press/) - Artist Nathan Oliveira discusses making prints at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [William T. Wiley at Crown Point Press, 2006 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/william-t-wiley-crown-point-press-2006/) - Artist William T. Wiley discusses working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2006.
- [Kiki Smith at Crown Point Press, 2006 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/kiki-smith-crown-point-press-2006/) - Artist Kiki Smith discusses making an etching at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [Mary Heilmann at Crown Point Press, 2006 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/mary-heilmann-crown-point-press/) - Artist Mary Heilmann discusses printmaking at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [John Chiara at Crown Point Press, 2006 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/john-chiara-crown-point-press-2006/)
- [Robert Bechtle Discusses Making Prints at Crown Point Press, 2007 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/robert-bechtle-discusses-making-prints-crown-point-press-2007/)
- [Inking and Wiping of Julie Mehretu's "Unclosed" (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/inking-wiping-julie-mehretus-unclosed/) - Master printer Catherine Brooks inks and wipes Julie Mehretu's "Unclosed" at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [Jockum Nordstrom at Crown Point Press, 2008 (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/737/) - Artist Jockum Nordstrom describes working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2008.
- [Darren Almond Photogravures, 2010 (5 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/darren-almond-photogravures-2014/) - In this video, you can see Darren Almond working at Crown Point Press on photogravures of the White Nile in Africa and of mist on Mt. Hiei in Japan.
- [Richard Tuttle: Eight Projects, 1998-2005 (19 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/richard-tuttle-eight-projects/) - 8 etching projects done in the Crown Point studio between 1998 and 2005.
- [John Cage at Work, 1978-1992 (44 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/john-cage-work-1978-1992/) - A film in four parts by Kathan Brown. This film is composed of vintage video clips of John Cage at work in the etching studio of Crown Point Press, in San Francisco. It begins with Cage's first etching project there, in 1978, and ends with his last one in 1992, the year he died. The
- [Green by Richard Diebenkorn: The Story of a Print, 1986 (14 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/green-richard-diebenkorn-story-print/) - Watch this 15-minute video of Richard Diebenkorn in the Crown Point studios making the large seminal etching, "Green."
- [Tom Marioni at Crown Point Press, 2008 (1 minute)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/tom-marioni-crown-point-press-2008/) - Bay Area Conceptual artist Tom Marioni discusses making the soft ground etching, "Drumming (2002) at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [John Cage Fire Prints at Crown Point Press, 1986 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/john-cage-fire-prints-crown-point-press-1986/) - Composer and artist John Cage uses fire to create an etching at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 1986. This film runs 2 minutes long.
- [Ed Ruscha at Crown Point Press, 2008 (2 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/ed-ruscha-crown-point-press-2008/) - Artist Ed Ruscha describes the process of creating prints at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2008.
- [Richard Diebenkorn: Two Weeks in January, 1986 (35 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/richard-diebenkorn-two-weeks-january-1986/) - Watch Richard Diebenkorn at work on the large aquatint, Green; Red-Yellow-Blue; and an unfinished print. In this video, shot by Kathan Brown, Diebenkorn works through the process of creating an etching with printer Marcia Bartholome. This film runs 35 minutes.
- [Pat Steir at Crown Point Press, 2008 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/pat-steir-crown-point-press-2008/) - Artist Pat Steir discusses working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [Richard Diebenkorn Makes an Etching, 1986 (7 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/richard-diebenkorn-makes-etching-1986/) - A 7-minute film of Richard Diebenkorn in the Crown Point studio, 1986.
- [Susan Middleton at Crown Point Press, 2008 (3 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/susan-middleton-crown-point-press-2008/) - Artist Susan Middleton describes making a color photogravure at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2008.
- [Wayne Thiebaud Working at Crown Point Press, 2011 (5 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/wayne-thiebaud-working-crown-point-press-2011/) - Artist Wayne Thiebaud working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2011.
- [Mamma Andersson at Crown Point Press, 2009 (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/mamma-andersson-crown-point-press-2009/) - Artist Mamma Andersson describes working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2009.
- [Chris Ofili at Crown Point Press, 2009 (4 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/734/) - Artist Chris Ofili describes working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2009.
- [Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom at Crown Point Press, 2010 (6 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/mamma-andersson-jockum-nordstrom-crown-point-press-2010/) - Artists Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom describe working collaboratively at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2010.
- [AN ART AND MATH PANEL Richard Karp, Tom Marioni, Dan Rockmore, Kathan Brown, 2016 (45 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/art-math-panel-richard-karp-tom-marioni-dan-rockmore-kathan-brown-2016/) - A real-time discussion centering on taste, truth, and fundamental laws as they apply to art and mathematics. Karp is a computer scientist and Turing Award recipient, and Rockmore a writer, mathematician and professor at Dartmouth. Marioni is a pioneer of conceptual art, and Brown is founding director of the etching workshop Crown Point Press in
- [Anne Appleby Working at Crown Point Press, 2012 (6 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/riparian-zone-anne-appleby-working-crown-point-press-2012/) - Artist Anne Appleby working at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, 2012.
- [Made in San Francisco: Ed Ruscha, 2016 (8 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/made-san-francisco-ed-ruscha/) - This video was made on the occasion of the exhibition, Made in San Francisco: Ed Ruscha Etchings 1982-2014 at Crown Point Press, 2016.
- [John Zurier at Crown Point Press, 2016 (6 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/john-zurier-crown-point-press-2016/)
- [Jacqueline Humphries: Etching Now, 2016 (7 minutes)](https://magical-secrets.com/video/httpsyoutu-bezafzgvlmer8/) - Watch this seven-minute video of Jacqueline Humphries working in the Crown Point studio, in 2016.
- [New Year's Resolution 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/new-years-resolution-2007/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about how artists approach thinking creatively and how you can use these ideas for yourself.
- [That's the Way It's Done: Richard Diebenkorn, 2009](https://magical-secrets.com/video/thats-way-done-richard-diebenkorn/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about "life lessons" that she's learned from artists, and shows a short video clip of Richard Diebenkorn in Japan.
- [A Magpie Approach: Michiko Kakutani, 2009](https://magical-secrets.com/video/magpie-approach-michiko-kakutani/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about Obama's "magpie approach" to literature and politics in reference to a NY Times article written by book critic Michiko Kakutani. She relates this approach to art collecting (giving us a view into her private collection), and argues that having an open
- [New Year's Egg 2011: Dan Flavin](https://magical-secrets.com/video/new-years-egg-2011-dan-flavin/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses the work of artist Dan Flavin and describes his approach to printmaking.
- [The Edge of Chaos: A Political Egg, 2008](https://magical-secrets.com/video/edge-chaos-political-egg/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses creativity and the 2008 presidential election.
- [A Rembrandt Etching, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/a-rembrandt-etching/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about Rembrandt and his etchings.
- [Get Into the Flow: William Bailey, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/get-flow-william-bailey/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses the magical secret of "flow." Footage of artist William Bailey working in the Crown Point studio helps to illustrate the point.
- [Getting Unstuck, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/getting-stuck/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses how to become unstuck when you are stuck with a difficult situation.
- [Striking a Balance: Pat Steir, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/striking-balance-pat-steir/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the importance of striking balance and uses artist Pat Steir's work in the Crown Point studio as an example.
- [Seeing the Future: Iain Baxter, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/seeing-future-iain-baxter/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the ability of artist to predict the future and discusses the work of Iain Baxter as an example.
- [Delight in Experiences: Chris Burden, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/delight-experiences-chris-burden/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about finding delight in experiences and uses Chris Burden's etchings as an example.
- [Taking Time (pt. 2), 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/taking-time-pt-2/) - Part 2 of Kathan Brown's talk about the importance of taking and using time for making art. Kathan Brown is the founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco.
- [Taking Time (pt. 1), 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/taking-time-pt-1/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the importance of taking and using time for making art.
- [Thinking Creatively vs Being Creative, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/thinking-creatively-vs-creative/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the difference between thinking creatively and being creative. She draws from the work of a caligrapher, Wayne Thiebaud and Mary Heilmann to exemplify the difference.
- [Own It, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/own-it/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the magical secret of "owning it."
- [The Edge of Chaos Pt. 2: John Cage, 2008](https://magical-secrets.com/video/edge-chaos-pt-2-john-cage/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, continues to talk about creativity during the 2008 presidential election. She uses the artworks of John Cage to exemplify creativity at the edge of chaos.
- [Use Every Source, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/use-every-source/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the importance of "using every source" in art and life. She uses an old Mughal drawing and the work of artist Julie Mehretu as an example.
- [Open to All Kinds of Things: Franz Kline, 2009](https://magical-secrets.com/video/open-kinds-things-franz-kline/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, draws from the art of Franz Kline to exemplify the importance of having an open mind to creativity.
- [The People Have Moved On, 2008](https://magical-secrets.com/video/the-people-have-moved-on/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, speaks about the importance of moving forward in the current economic recession. She draws parallels between the works of Jannis Kounellis and Mamma Andersson and contextualizes their meaning for their times.
- [The Comic Book, The Print and The Painting: Bertrand Lavier, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/comic-book-print-painting-bertrand-lavier/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses ancient block books as well as the work of artist Bertrand Lavier.
- [That Kind of Focus: Chris Ofili, 2008](https://magical-secrets.com/video/kind-focus-chris-ofili/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the importance of concentration in the making of an artwork. She shows a clip of artist Chris Ofili working on an etching to exemplify this kind of concentration.
- [Daguerrotype to Digital: Chuck Close, 2009](https://magical-secrets.com/video/daguerrotype-digital-chuck-close/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, speaks about artist Chuck Close's show at the Sonoma County Museum and discusses the difference between originals and reproductions of an artwork.
- [Closing Doors: Jockum Nordström, 2008](https://magical-secrets.com/video/closing-doors-jockum-nordstrom/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the importance of making decisions or "closing the doors" on choices that may not be relevant to a greater whole. She uses the work of artist Jockum Nordström to illustrate the point.
- [Intelligent Mistakes: Amy Sillman, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/intelligent-mistakes-amy-sillman/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses intelligent mistakes and the work of Amy Sillman.
- [Labor Day: Robert Bechtle, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/labor-day-robert-bechtle/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses the work of artist Robert Bechtle.
- [Doing Something vs Willing Something: The Real Estate Man, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/something-vs-willing-something-real-estate-man/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, continues to highlight the difference between "doing something" and "willing something."
- [Green Eye Shadow, 2009](https://magical-secrets.com/video/green-eye-shadow/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, uses a Psychology Today article as a jumping-off point for discussing increased personal well-being through creativity.
- [Forget Green Eye Shadow, 2010](https://magical-secrets.com/video/forget-green-eye-shadow/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses various approaches to creative thinking exemplified by the work of artists Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom.
- [Searchers and Planners, 2006](https://magical-secrets.com/video/searchers-and-planners/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about the difference between searchers and planners and shows how artists like Markus Raetz among others fall into the category of searchers, 2006.
- [Julie Mehretu, May 2008](https://magical-secrets.com/video/julie-mehretu/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses ancient Indian images and the work of artist Julie Mehretu. May, 2008.
- [Drawing, Walking, and Flying: Tom Marioni and Richard Diebenkorn, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/drawing-walking-flying-tom-marioni-richard-diebenkorn/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses "flow" drawing examples from the work of artists Tom Marioni and Richard Diebenkorn. October, 2007.
- [Why Not? The Work of Sol LeWitt, 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/not-work-sol-lewitt/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco talks about the work and influence of artist Sol LeWitt. May, 2007.
- [Doing Something vs Willing Something: New Year's Resolution 2007](https://magical-secrets.com/video/something-vs-willing-something-new-years-resolution-2007/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses New Year's resolutions and artist Wayne Thiebaud in 2007.
- [New Year's Egg 2010](https://magical-secrets.com/video/new-years-egg-2010/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, discusses the importance of art in our daily lives.
- [New Year's Egg 2009: Elaine de Kooning](https://magical-secrets.com/video/new-years-egg-elaine-de-kooning/) - Kathan Brown, founder and director of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, talks about pragmatism as a possible collective unconscious in art and politics, and advises the use of creativity in the New Year.

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](/category/uncategorized/)

## Video Categories

- [Artists Talking](/videos/artiststalking/) - In this series of videos, Crown Point artists speak about making art and, in particular, the approaches they take to etching and why they enjoy using the medium.
- [Artists Working](/videos/artistsworking/) - Over the years, we have videotaped many artists at work in the Crown Point studio. Click to watch them behind-the-scenes.
- [3-Minute Egg](/videos/3-minute-egg/) - Between 2006 and 2011, Kathan Brown created this series of short commentaries on art and life.
- [Studio How-Tos](/videos/studio-how-tos/) - Learn by watching these live-action short videos.
- [Featured Video](/videos/featured-video/)