Experimentation with Etchings....

I decided to do a little experiment with my photo etching after seeing my old copper plates from last year. I wanted to see if I could salvage my aquatint plate and use it as a background for my photo etch. After a lot of brasso, white spirit and scrubbing, I was able to salvage the plate and make it print worthy and printed my photo etch over it.

They didn't come out as I had expected as my photo etch plate is slightly bigger than the aquatint plate, however there was an element of abstraction there as the smaller plate was offset. Also some of the colours that I had chosen weren't as effective as I had hoped and you could only just make out the shape of the gender symbol in the photo etch. The colours I had chosen were white & a metallic gold, but these were over strong, bold background colours. However, I did like this effect as it had this ghostly element of this, as if the idea of being a woman, the image of a woman is slowly disappearing. This is especially relevant to today's society where women are coming out as being sexually assaulted and harassed not only in Hollywood but in politics and everyday life. It seems that woman can't be seen as anything but a sex object, so this idea of the image of the woman is fading seems fitting.

I do want to experiment further with these plates. Maybe play around with the composition and colours. I also want to experiment with collagraph prints next, and possibly combine it with my photo etching.

Things to do next:
*experiment further? - composition? colour?
*collagraphs? - use decorative flowers?

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