Details of the first print
printed with burnt umber
The copper plate in the bath of ferric chloride (Edinburgh etch)
Size of the plate is 30 x 40 cm or 11,8" x 15,7"
At several intervals the plate is taken out of the bath, and parts of the drawing are then covered again with etching ground, so these covered lines will not be etched any deeper or wider.
the pale lines were drawn into the etching ground and etched in the copper.
the bare copper plate with the etched lines
The very first print
(click image to enlarge and zoom)
the detail with the birds
in the previous post you can see this drawing and details in the etching ground
Tomorrow a day of improvements and pilgrimage ...
Wonderful... I saw a fox kit late last night when driving home, she darted across the road in front of me in all her wild youth - the cat trailing behind the woman has a foxiness about her!
ReplyDeleteHi Valerianna, our cats our very foxlike, certainly in winter, and now already their winter fur comes back. Has your Pasha a foxtail in winter? :-)
ReplyDeleteThe name of my boy-cat is Foxi :)
ReplyDeleteFor me it is a wonder, how the copper-plate changes into a drawing. I could not think in mirror-transform. This is an admirably competence of the printers!
Ingenious hands, sharp eyes and aninspirational pilgrimage for tomorrow carrying on with this work!
His tail gets puffier, people liken it to an ostrich feather! And his lion's mane gets very long.
ReplyDeleteI really like the path that the woman, birds, and fox are walking on. It seems to unite this whole world, which is internal and external at once.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever see the photos of that rainforest inside a cave that some scientists found last year? I just thought of it again, looking at your etching.
Jodi, I've often dreamed about walking on this path. I've found the photos of the rainforest in the cave, you made me very curious and they are amazing, thank you !
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