Printmaking: Intaglio print

Here is another print done in the hard ground / lift ground technique (see entry 11 February 2010). I tried out a different grease medium this time: olive oil mixed with a small amount of artists oil paint. Parts of the figures in Encounter are drawn with this oil mixture, other parts with vaseline. Vaseline renders rough brush strokes quite nicely. The non-toxic etching solution is a mixture of copper sulphate, salt and water.

Aluminium plate, acrylic hardground, lift ground, 

waterbased Akua etching ink on Fabriano etching paper. 2010.