A visual breakdown of this week's art adventures:
Process: Baldwin Ink Ground - soft ground with textures pressed in (tarlatan for the grass and tin foil for the mountains) baked to a hard ground, added the horse then aquatinted burnished/sanded/scraped horse masked out, then soy ground etched
burnished/sanded/scraped
horse re-masked and re-aquatinted
burnished/sanded/scraped
voila!4.5 x 6," Portland black ink on warm white hahnemuhle paper |
Baldwin Ink Ground (hard ground) aquatint selective burnishing 6 x 4.5," stiff black ink on hahnemuhle paper |
original collage with linocuts from last September (12 x 12") |
edited and transferred to copper plate |
tried some selective inking |
added an aquatint layer and selective burnishing,
4.5 x 6," Renaissance black ink on warm white hahnemuhle paper |
more bunnies - studying up to make more linocuts and now, maybe transfers too! :) |