Etching Plate 1

I enjoyed the etching workshop last year during the residency and I started another plate soon after but then my wife was hospitalised and things changed.

As I am realizing the end of the course is near I wanted to learn how to etch

I started working on two plates

It was a long process, a long battle with transforming the plate into what I wanted, which was unknown too. I didn't know the process, all th eresuntls were a surprise.

There was frustration

There was surprise as well.

There was disappointment

There was testing of my patience

There was deep engagment with he procees

There was lost of learning

Marking the hard groung on the zink plate

etch

obsrve

print a prof

Ooh

hmm

sugar lift

etch

ooh

hmm

soap ground

etch

ok, we getting there

more or less, in very very basic language - this is how it was for about 5-6 days as I was grappling with learning processes and understanding how to make a print.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

day 4

Day 5