Printmaking: Intaglio print

I have started experimenting with etching, using  non-toxic materials, mainly acrylic and waterbased.

The print Procession is an example for soft ground etching: lines are drawn into a soft resist that forms a barrier between the metal plate and the etch bath. Only where the drawn lines break through this resist and expose the metal surface will the etching solution start biting the metal. Thus depressions are created which will later hold etching ink during the printing process.

Aluminium plate, acrylic soft ground, waterbased Caligo etching ink 
on Hahnemühle etching paper. 2010.