“Theircoming”
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Hard ground and soft ground etched- acids! solvents! mineral spirits! I went over it with drypoint too. Aquatint for the elephant shadows…it’s where you put the copper plate on a rack, close the door, and turn a handle really fast 20 something times to make a cloud of rosin that evenly coats the plate. There were a lot of shifts in the plate such as using a roulette tool to give textured shadows to the other idols and scraping, sanding, and burnishing parts of where I’d mistakenly drawn to then drypoint over. These were based on some minuscule animalistic beads I’ve got that stand on a shelf. For the cloverlets I did Chine-collé by cutting out and gluing this green dyed paper so that I can carefully lay it on its back on the plate to then align paper on top and print . I have some more that I will share later but this was good to work with my hands I could have done better at wiping the plate of its ink but let me know what you think
