This is a print from a series of 4 plates I made recently. To be honest it wasn't meant to look like this, but as this IS what I've made I'm learning to love some of its qualities and see what I can do with what I have.
I started off making a simple etching , which was too simple, so added some shading with a sugar lift. When I printed that plate, it was a bit bland. So I decided that I'd play and see what happened if I made some really deeply etched marks. I've been experimenting with how to achieve a wide but fluid line which is deeply etched, and have been experimenting with some quite strange materials in doing this. It seems that the big challenge is to protect the plate surface while it sits in thw acid bath for any thing over a couple of hours. Here I used stop out, but when I applied the stop out it felt a bit odd and grainy, and the marks which are visible are the brush strokes where part of its protection broke down. Had I known it would do this, I would have thought more about how I was applying the stop out, but as we all know, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I do however think that it's quite an interesting print.
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