Mezzotint

Towards the ending of this past year I chose to try my hand at Mezzotinting (its a pretty epic technique, were classmates call me insane for trying), completing a 6" by 4" rectangle. Sadly as it was the ending of the year I rushed through the actual illustrating phase and randomly used different tools to mark it up. Printing 4 proofs on some scrap paper and changing the second plate each time, which is the scrapes that get more intense each time.

This summer I am in the process of preparing another plate and will hopefully not epically fail when transferring my design to the plate.

Soft Ground

The third and last copper assignment in the intro print class was to... shade? Well I don't quite remember, but I do know that I kinda curved it to allow me to create yet another logo/art for one of my other sites (it isn't up yet).. neither is Nucheese for that matter...

Just like with Hard Ground, Soft Ground is also a acid resistant coating that is applied to a copper plate then scraped off and etched in acid. Soft Ground is suppose to create the effect of shading, sadly I not only was unable to achieve this but I also got fowl bite. The little dots all over my image.

Hard Ground

The second assignment, Hard Ground, were a acid resistant coating is applied to a copper plate then scraped off and etched in acid, was to use letters, shapes and numbers in anyway we wished. Knowing my website names I used this assignment to create a logo for none other then "Nucheese."

Dry Point

So here is my first attempt at printmaking, which took place fall term of this last year.
The assignment was to blindly draw while listening to music, forgetting what was assigned I created this odd little monster. The technique used was dry point. Where I scraped a piece of copper, as shown below.



Here is a print.