aquatinted etchings

While rehabilitating from my deafness i decided to try and do something different. I decided on aquatint etching.

etching is a process of taking a plate of wood and using a carving tool to gouge your picture into the wood. (with the positive and negative spaces flipped). Then rolling ink over the panel and pressing the panel into a piece of paper thus giving you a print.

The difference with aquatinting a etching and inking is that instead of using ink you use a alcohol based resin. this resin unlike ink allows slight color variation instead of black on white.


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