Etching plate 8

Resistant day

Today I struggled to make any work. I couldn’t sleep well all week, and even though I went to sleep at 1:30 and I was tired after processing those films I couldn’t sleep well last night either. I wake up (well, how do you call waking up when you actually didn’t sleep) arround 6:00 AM. My body didn’t want to hear it, all joints felt rusty, so I decided that I should rest in bed for a little longer. At about 7 am I stood up, had a shower, made a coffe, made my daughter breakfast and got ready to go to CSM so I can carry on with etchings.

The morning at CSM was slow.

prep a new plate

I used one of my charcoal drawings as a starting point. But last night I had this weird dream of a bird flying. What the fuck that means? So I said how about I etch it on the plate. It seamed uncompet so O added an eye in between the birds.

One bird has the wings open and one has the wings down.

There are 5 characters, one faceless

Aquatint

Marbealing at the bottom

Blocked the birds

Blocked the body of the characters

Aquatint heavily the heads and the eye

On this plate, I played with marks, spit bite, open bite, aquatint, sugar lift, and soap ground and some new techniques which I forgot to take photos as I was moving quickly.

The way I work is completely unplanned, I mean I have a rough idea, but as I see the plate developing, I'm working with it, if there are things that don't work, I keep working the plate until I get it where I feel is nearly complete. As I wonr on th eschdeule to finish all 10 before the Unit 3 submition, i try not to work to much on a plate. but roughly is taking 3-5 days for each.