Monday, August 29, 2011

Etching away

As my focus moves more towards the ornament and it's patterns and motifs of Victorian objects, I am trying to incorporate more such style in my pieces. I have been etching silver and copper using bitchumen as a resist and hand drawing the detail to be etched using mainly Victorian wallpaper as a reference.
Originally i was using transparencies (as below) of printed pre-existing designs as a resist to etch but wanted to make the pieces more "my own."



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