Apr 13
(mostly) finished my first copperplate etching!
This is @caemidraws incredible Marsilio (in a pretty old outfit and unfortunately flipped because I failed to account for printing, oops), sitting in a bookplate design by Alice Cao
I hadn’t been expecting just how thin these etched lines would end up being and would definitely have scaled the entire thing down if I had known. But! this means that I get to experiment with aquatint to hopefully add some more depth (see preparation below).
I'd say for a first attempt at etching it could have been worse :)
#printmaking#etching#pettirossi#scaling it down probably would also have improved my very wonky attempt at freehanding gothic tracery#but boy was this fun anyways#I love this guy so much!!!!#if any of my english printing vocabulary is off#1. please let me know#2. it's felix brunner and dennis stephenson's fault#my art#so many little things I would change (what happened to the nose??) but the fact that I can't go back and un-etch the lines is pretty freein#I understand now why print artists have a reputation for being... intense#I would be too if one wrong scratch could ruin hours of work and metal
