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Tuesday, 27 October 2009

ETCHING EXPERIMENTS

I found this piece of deeply etched zinc, a left over workshop example and thought it would be
fun to experiment with viscosity inking and some copper chine collee. Only 3 inches by 3 inches,
with lovely ragged edges. A close up shows how the ink is reacting with the edges and the copper leaf.
Is it my imagination or do the spare bits and pieces that we just muck about with often work better and are more interesting than the pieces we spend days working on?
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4 comments:

  1. Sara Bowen27 October 2009 at 18:54

    Hi Sue, what a beautiful piece of plate! I loved your ostrich at the RWA print show, by the way. Regards, Sara

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  2. jo horswill28 October 2009 at 14:25

    Hi Sue,
    This is a lovely bit of plate :)...colours are wonderful.
    I agree, that sometimes very interesting work evolves from experimenting and playing around with bits and pieces. It's spontaneous, just like quick gestural drawing is.

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  3. Jill1 November 2009 at 15:00

    Inspiring blog - I shall be back
    Jill

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  4. stripey stockings8 March 2016 at 00:13

    Absolutely beautiful! Love the texture and colour

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