Seeing what works 3

Seeing what works 2

seeing what works 1

An experiment that went wrong

Dandelions 7

Dandelions 6

Dandelions 5

Dandelions 4

Dandelions 3

Dandelions 2

Dandelions 1

Coloured bands 2

Coloured bands1

copper 2

Copper

Solar etching, Fistral

This is a  solar etching made from an old plate found during a recent clear up. It made me realsie that my etching has moved on so much since I made this several years ago. 

It is inspired by a photograph, taken on holiday in Cornwall, to which I have returned several times

but I think it works better as a painting  

Chine colle goes VERY wrong

Coloured 5

Coloured dyptich 5

Coloured dyptich 4

Coloured diptych 3

Coloured dyptich 2

Coloured 4

Coloured 3

Coloured 2

Coloured 1

Colour Dypich

Adding some colours

Reworked 6

Reworked 5

Reworked 4

Reworked 3

Reworked 2

Reworked 1

So, when I looked at the prints I'd made, I decided that they might benefit from a bit more time in the acid. Mistake!

What happened next was totally unexpected. The plate started bubbling in a totally uncontrolled way- etching the open area so quickly that the plates were utterly transformed (and not all in a good way) 

The circles that are visible on the areas which were already etched are he bubbles that formed 9n the acid! 

What are the odds? 4

What are the odds? 3

What are the odds? 2

What are the odds? 1

Printing by numbers

I've made 7 plates in total from the falling bands, and they are square, and initially I thought about printing them 4 together like this. And then I started to ponder the maths. 

Given that each plate can be used in 4 places on the grid, with any of 6  other plates each 4 ways round, and they can be in different positions on the grid- how many possible combinations are there- or more to the point- what was the chance of me arriving at this combination. I know the number's huge- but I don't know how huge. I think my brain might explode working it out. 

Colouring the plates 6

Colouring the plates 5

Colouring the plates 4

Colouring the plates 3

Colouring the plates 2

Colouring the plates 1

This isn't the best photograph of the real colour. 

You might have realised by now, that left to my own preferences- ie when the image is something I'm playing  with, though not when the subject dictates otherwise, I like bright happy colours. So I thought kit was time to have a gfo with something more staid and grownup. I printed this is a beautifully subtle inky navy and a pale grey blue- both colours heavily based on my favorite Prussian blue of course, but not in your face as I generally chose to print them. 

Chance 7