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
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#aquatint
#sugarlift
#spitbite
#Stirling
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#FestivalOfPrintmaking
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.
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.
John Grey