Etching Plate 10

finaly

plate 10

It felt lik eI iwll never get here

I dont feel done

I need more

My mind is busy

I have new ideas

i will soon start woring on new schetces

This plate was a battle

I made some mistakes initially, and it was in a form that I didn't like

Unfortunately, I struggle to document, i get absorbed in my wor,k and nothing else matters, as I panic

SO it was in a form I didn't like, and I took it home to buff it on the wheel (I have a buffing wheel at home).

As I was progressing with polishing, I started to notice the marks left behind and I was liking them. This progress was over a couple of weeks, so perhaps because of the time passed, my vision changed as I worked on other plates.

So I took it back, used a modified sugar lift solution ( i added more sugar and lots of chalk and a bit of oil in some old solution I had) and i used it to mark the characters and the links in between

Then I finalised it by using spit bite aquatint

same size as the rest 300mm x 200mm aprox on some reset paper.