Throughout this painting project we have also had a number of printmaking sessions to introduce us to the etching process. I like how in this process the printing plate can become a piece of art as much as the prints made from it. To correspond with my current work I made a hard ground plate and traced lines from the 360 degree view drawing that I had created in response to my 3D cardboard sculpture. The fact that you can continue to draw into the ground once it had dried means that I could work on a drawing for days without compromising the plate, I hope that I can use this to my advantage and make really detailed drawings that I can etch in the future.
I am also in the process of making a soft ground etching plate; this process differs to hard ground etching because of the nature of the ground on the plate and its ability to remain soft. Pressing objects onto the plate enables details from those objects to be etched and printed, allowing for textures to be created which couldn’t be done with a stylus in a hard ground etching. I am currently using plant matter to create my plate but I hope that I can experiment with other textures and potentially combine hard and soft ground etching together.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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