Skills 6 PRINT Workshop: Photo Etching.......

This week we started the first session of the photo etching process, which is something that I had deep interest in as I enjoyed the previous etching processes. For the image I chose to reuse the gender symbol maquette that I had made as I really liked the idea of using an image of a 3D object and making it 2D. It also relates back to my own work and ideas around gender, equality and feminism.

The process is much like screen printing, where you use a photosensitive ink on the copper plate and expose the image with a lamp, then help the image to expose and then use acid to etch away the parts that are not covered by the ink, using aquatint as well, and then clean the plate. I really liked how my image came out as I was worried it was going to come out too light but it came out successfully, with the shading in the right places. I

I then went ahead and printed from the plate the following week. I did several prints in black ink, and then a handful in colour, using blues and pinks. For the black ink prints, I used beige coloured paper and the effect was really interesting, it looked like an aged image in comparison to the more bold and colourful screen prints. I will be going back and printing more from this plate, possibly even experimenting with composition, much like my screen prints. I think I might take this and use it to experiment with dry point etching again. I did get an idea to possibly do a collagraph print and combine that with this image, as a way of adding a background to this photo etching. I might also bring in one of my past plates, possibly the one with aquatint and use that as a background first and see how that looks.

Things to do next:
*Print more - experimenting with colours & composition (relationship of colour and image)
*Experiment with composition
*Dry point etching?
*Collagraph?
*Combine with other plates?

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