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	Sbado de Gloria
	The etching below was the test plate for the etching, Sbado de Gloria.
	test plate
	Master printers,  Mitchel Marti and Michael Costello, make adjustments in the printing of Sbado de Gloria.
	Here are the five plates needed to print this aquatint etching.
	5 plates
	The blue plate was printed first as you can see from the image below.  Note that the red plate  is ready to be printed on the second pass.
	The red plate has been printed and the plate with three colors is placed on the press bed.   The three colors are far enough apart that this plate can carry them.
	The ground, the top of the small buttress, and the sky are printed.
	ground sky buttress
	Sbado de Gloria continues click here for final stages.