Here is a simple etching of the Minotaur. I had prepared a plate a while ago and thought it would be a good opportunity to try some of that scale-like patterning in an etching. I have since prepared a few more plates and plan to continue with a more Minotaur-related etchings. I have editioned this state and will probably add an aquatint shadow to push the background back and better define the edge of the figure.
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i was just enquiring about what tools you used in creating your Minotaur Etching?
as i am doing an assignment on your art work and need to know information about the artwork itself?
Hi Andrea,
I used a copper plate (edges filed), liquid ground to cover the plate, an etching stylus to draw through the ground. Then the plate gets soaked in a ferric chloride salt bath which eats into the plate wherever I made a line through the the ground. Then I print the plate on paper using a big etching press. Check out this link for a better explanation of this and other printmaking processes: http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/