ETCHING

I had my first etching workshop. If I'm not mistaken, that was variation of aquatinta technique. I made two plates with soft and hard grounds, as they have different effects on printing. Some of my course mates made notes on all steps of process, In the end of workshop I regret that I didn't. There were huge amount of suggestions essential to follow. I spent almost nine hours at printing studio to produce just four prints. Behind those photos there are plenty of preparation.

Feathering process and adding drawing on zinc plate with needle

Steel and zinc plates before printing

Two prints made from steel plate

Two prints made from zinc plate

Just like that old printing press roll at college printing room.

20 FACES PROJECT

I had my first project at university. We were given a list of emotions and seven days, in the end of that time we had to choose 20 faces and to draw them on A1 sized paper. One of them had to be done on separate sheet.

At first it was a bit scary to draw in large scale, haven't done it for a while. However, I found it useful, as there are more space for details.

20 faces and part human part animal face

closeups

Long face and old face

Some works of my course mates which I liked

Some more

MONOPRINTING WORKSHOP

It was nice to make my hands dirty with ink.