Penland - Etch-a-Sketch
Back at Penland after a two year hiatus. This time I took Etch-a-Sketch with Jay Fox and got to refresh my etching skills. I was super stoked to be back on campus and working on printmaking again.
This is a view from the main campus to the knoll.
The pines dining hall and residence. I spent a lot of time in the Pines - working, sleeping and eating!
Jay Fox printing my plate as a double drop demonstration. I had an old plate that I had etched with my friend, Amy Veatch, using a sharpie as a ground. Double drop is where you ink it with black ink and then print it, then add more ink using a roller and print it again.
Working on transferring my waffle design to my plate, making sure everything was backwards!
Waffle print - 1st state. I missed a line so I went back with some hard ground and added some more linework to it.
The first state of my Chickens in a Barrel print.
This is after I added the aquatint to the chickens in a barrel. Aquatint creates the tonal shades by dusting the plate with rosin and fusing the rosin to the plate. The plate is then stopped out where you don’t want any tone. Then the plate was etched for one minute, stopped out again and etched for four minutes to get a lighter tone and a darker tone.
Class test plate - guess which part I did?
My finished prints at the art show at Penland.
My friend Jeanne and her bench she made in wood.
My friend and neighbor, Staci Sawyer, and her amazing cast jewelry.
My friend and roommate, Jorge, who created and amazing root ball in his nature journaling class.
My favorite old house on Penland campus - it was used as a dye house in a previous life.