Etching 2 (Aquatint)

Another successful, and enjoyable, day in the print room. I am really pleased with the aquatint print I made - I think using tone worked really well with the composition I chose, and it is a far more interesting image than my first hard ground etching.

I found myself perhaps more interested in the look of the plate as I was preparing it - the different surfaces bitten into it were fascinating and I would be quite interested in experimenting with what can be done with metal itself (and forget about the print). Another student from a different year was using the acid to corrode a metal box, which was making really beautiful colours on its surface - I'd love to investigate something similar. ...I think perhaps this points towards my interest in materials over making marks (drawing), which I view as more of an ideas process.