Tag: Zinc etching
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How to develop an image through colour choices and what happens when plate direction goes astray.
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Take a successful print design and evolve it into a new and larger piece.
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How to successfully design and combine multiple etched images into unified finished prints
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Reworking and combining old printmaking plates can often produce surprising results.
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How to develop a basic drawing into a complex zinc etching.
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This zinc etching had numerous problems as it developed. I started with a couple of photographs taken at Lakes Entrance in Victoria last year. I…
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I made my first etched plates in 2016 and my first hard ground etching was some swans I had drawn. This was pretty boring, simple…
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Since my last post regarding the etched solar plates I was recently given I’ve been experimenting with different papers and colourways to see what effects…
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At the beginning of February I posted my hand-drawn Banksia serrata and my journey to transform it into an etched print. Today I share with…
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Back at the end of January I wrote about a 2 day workshop I did with Basil Hall. Click here to read that so you…
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In Part 1 of my recent course with Basil Hall I worked on 2 colour etching plates. That 2 day workshop encouraged a small number…
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With Basil Hall This 2 day workshop was an eye-opener for sure. The aim was to produce 2 etched plates, with a variety of tones,…
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For my first plate I decided to imitate what Matthew, the tutor, had taught us. I have a bit of a habit of running away…
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This is a new process to me involving etching into a zinc plate using 2 types of melted wax and an acid bath. The protective…