Dandilion

More prints from the clear up. Sometimes I’m simply in a mood to make plates, and I don’t always print them for ages as making them is a nice clean operation which I can go do anywhere in the house using up a few minutes here and there, but printing them is messy and takes time and requires me to commit to a solid block of time in the studio which isn’t always possible.

This is a plate which I scratched out a last summer , and is basically a sketch  book piece for a project I never actually developed. ( There are a number of unfinished dandelions using various methods which I ought to get around to completing at some point )

 

This particular print is a drypoint scratched with an etching needle into a Perspex sheet. It’s not worked as well as I would have liked- but that’s the point of sketches, they are simply about developing ideas, and perhaps the fact that the image is a little indistinct is suitable for the subject.