Here’s a print I made at East London Printmakers last week.
I wanted to show how concentrated these people were, immersed in what they were doing, sitting on the wall.
It is printed on Fabriano Unica paper, using Charbonnel F66 traditional etching ink. Here is the copper plate:
The plate is made with hard ground lines, soft ground patterns, and three aquatint sessions.
I made some variations of this print. Here is one, using chine-collé.
Sometimes in the printing process, magic happens. As I was packing for this print session, searching for paper, tissues, gloves, and other printing essentials, I encountered a thick envelope labelled “Old Prints”. I pulled out one of those, a street scene, with a vague idea of overprinting it. It is a drypoint I made years ago. The vague idea turned into a plan, and then a print. Here it is. I was really pleased with how it came out. The chine-collé is also a leftover from another project.
Jane Sketching 