I've been spending some time at the Botanical Gardens at Smith College and decided to bring a copper plate with hardground on it and do some on-the-spot drawing. This little palm caught my eye, it is called Plectrauthus Nummularia. This is just the line drawing. Hopefully next week I'll have put a decent aquatint on it.
Hardground= a resist applied to a metal plate that is then submerged in acid to etch lines. You draw through the hardground with a sharp needle, exposing certain areas of the metal to the acid. The acid eats away at the exposed metal which creates a divot, which catches ink, that can then be printed.
Aquatint= a way to get tone with etching (using a similar resist process as described above).
Printmaking is very much like witchcraft.
"An Armless Hug" - a sketch
Here is a plate of that drawing with a hardground on it. It's a little hard to see, but if you look at their hair you can see the metal glinting where I started to draw.
Last but not least, I'd like to introduce the Advice Monster.
"YO,GROW A PAIR," Advices the advice monster.
And then eats the cat to demonstrate his point.
2 comments:
I'm stopping by from Jessica Gowling's bear collaboration. I liked your work there and so glad I've come to look at your website. Your etchings are great and you've given me a laugh with your monster and cat photo.
Golly, Thanks a lot! I'm so glad you decided to check me out. I update every Monday (or try to) so stay tuned for more work!
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