Tuesday 27 January 2009

Illustration Friday - Climbing

Come up and see my etchings? Well, etching, to be precise- my very first one ever! I thought it fitted into the IF theme too as she is climbing aboard a cuddly Manatee.

This is just etching onto steel, which gives a mid tone to everything. This week I started a very simple tree design on zinc, which is whiter, and I am aquatinting it in a couple of tones and then want to do chine colle on it.

The design of this etching sums up how I feel about printing. I love it, but it's just too massive a subject to grasp! It's just fab. Even though my hand are sore and my lungs are raw, it's worth it.

6 comments:

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Chris Kennett said...

Very nice, you don't see enough Manatees these days.

Anonymous said...

This is really serene and beautiful...

Tracey Miller said...

This is very sweet!

kathy hare said...

gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

So peaceful and soothing. I really like this