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Color etching re-visited
My goodness, it’s been a long time since I’ve made a print…thanks to some carpal tunnel issues in my right wrist! Despite the discomfort, I decided to start the New Year by taking Rachel Heberling’s “Advanced Color Etching” class at Tiger Lily Press. It was a fun class and just what I needed to get going again. I haven’t done a color etching in decades, especially one that turned out to be as complicated as I made this one. Two plates, seven colors, plus chine colle. If that wasn’t bad enough, I invested in loads of Charbonnel “Aqua Wash” water soluble color etching ink so that I could continue printing at home without the use of solvents. Water soluble etching inks have a very different ‘feel’ than oil based inks, and will probably take me a while to understand how to use them properly.



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11 Feb 2013