‘Stripy Cat, Washing’
I do not claim in any way to be an expert in mezzotint, the title of this post is to contrast with the post coming next, which will be ‘Mezzotint done improperly’. I have two new prints to show you which I did very differently from each other, however you will have to wait for the ‘improper’ one.
This is a print inspired by the many cat drawings I have been posting on my other blog, Cat-of-the-day. A few months ago I posted a series of photos of the last mezzotint print I made – ‘Percy Cat’. There are some explanations in that post, and links to more explanations, so if you’d like the full story of this technique please look back through that post. This post is not about explanations, just a few photos which show you a new picture emerging:
amazing stuff nancy. love the cat and following for more art 🙂 x x x
Thank you! 🙂
Absolutely awesome! Great work. 🙂
Thanks Tom! 🙂
wonderful, fantastic.
Thanks Val! xx
This is LUSH! I’m tempted to try mezzotint now I know it can be done on alumnium 😀
Thank you! 🙂 and yes, do have a go Rosie! I thought alu might be too soft but actually because the spikes of the rocker sink deeper into the metal it probably doesn’t matter that it’s softer. I have worked on pre-rocked copper plates and they were physically harder to burnish but you get a very fine finish – as apparently everything with aluminium it’s all a bit cruder and chunkier, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing – after all, we are still handmaking printing plates – there’s a sort of mad crudeness about the whole thing in this digital age! Plus I think it’s good for me because I could get bogged down in fine detail otherwise. Crude in a good way, of course: doesn’t mean the artistic process is crude, just makes us a bit eccentric 😉
I like the soft, smudginess that you’re getting with the aluminium plates
Oh yes it is a bit like that… er, I mean, thank you, yes it was all meant to be like that 😉 x
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Love it! Love the photo series.
Thank you, Judy! 🙂