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Working on an etching of Stirling Castle - hope they will be finished and dry in time for the Festival of Printmaking I'm going to at Stirling on the 16th to 18th August.
https://www.printmakersofscotland.com/stirling-2024
#printmaking
#etching
#aquatint
#sugarlift
#spitbite
#Stirling
#Scotland
#PrintmakersOfScotland
#FestivalOfPrintmaking -
Just about finished - "Winter Swimmers" a brass plate #aquatint #etching of an empty #Portobello beach apart from a group of swimmers getting ready to enter the water.
#printmaking
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
#sugarLift -
I'm working on an #etching of #Portobello Beach near #Edinburgh. The brass plate shows the result of #SugarLift with exposed metal in what will be darker parts of the etching. I've always had trouble with sugar lift - the sugar, gum arabic and gouache doesn't seem to wet and stick to the metal well however much gum and detergent I add. This time I used thick molasses, gouache and detergent which worked much better.
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Work in progress - a rough line #etching of #Blackness Castle on the #Forth, West of #Edinburgh. Next step #sugarlift and #aquatinting. This is a brass plate etched with Ferric Chloride.
#printmaking
#Scotland -
Work in progress - a rough line #etching of #Blackness Castle on the #Forth, West of #Edinburgh. Next step #sugarlift and #aquatinting. This is a brass plate etched with Ferric Chloride.
#printmaking
#Scotland -
Another new #etching, this time of the #TayBridge looking from the #Dundee waterfront. Between the bridge supports are the piers of the first, 1878, bridge which collapsed after just a year and a half, killing all 75 people on a North British Railway train bound for Dundee from Edinburgh.
This is a 300x210mm brass plate etching, using #sugarLift for the bridge and #spitBite with wax resists for the hills and water.
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Another new #etching, this time of the #TayBridge looking from the #Dundee waterfront. Between the bridge supports are the piers of the first, 1878, bridge which collapsed after just a year and a half, killing all 75 people on a North British Railway train bound for Dundee from Edinburgh.
This is a 300x210mm brass plate etching, using #sugarLift for the bridge and #spitBite with wax resists for the hills and water.
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Working on a new #etching of the #NationalMiningMuseum Scotland (previously the Lady Victoria Colliery) very close to where I live.
I have done a line etching on the brass plate and am now drawing in the silhouette of the winding gear with coloured sugar solution to do a #SugarLift. Next, I'll paint the whole plate with stop and then put it in hot water so that the sugar-painted areas lift off and hopefully leave bare metal to be aquatinted and etched.
#printmaking
#Scotland