AQUATINT CLASS , Evening Reflections

G E T T I N G-- S T A R T E D

The new 24 inch by 17 inch copper plate is ready to go into the box.
When the rosin in the box gets low I grind lump rosin with a mortar and pestle and put it into the aquatint box.
This new 4 plate aquatint will be drawn from a photograph that I took at Jewel Lake, Tilden Park, Berkeley, in February of 1980. The same photo was used for the lithograph, Twilight.

Photoshop is used to reverse the image and to cut the photo into eight sections. The smaller pieces make it much easier for me to see the image source as I draw onto the plate.

Rosin is dropped and melted onto the plate. Grids are marked to aid in the freehand translation of the image onto the new plate.
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Now the new plate is ready for the first paint-out to begin.