One With Copper * Week Three
I am having so much fun playing with the copper plates! This week I took the 16 plates that are sanded and filed out to the beach with me along with my point and shoot digital camera. It was amazing!! I shot 109 pictures while two of my very loving family members stood around cold and bored. It is true love demonstrated when you do not even get a grumble. They let me have my fun. I have another field trip planed for the plates next week. I will have to do some creative thinking in advance about how to stage the plates for next weeks unusual outing. As the number of plates each week increases, I will be ma
king a mental caution note about where I take them to photograph. It took me a whole evening to sock the plates in a salt and vinegar solution and to re-sand all the plates. Seawater and sand would be an interesting etching experiment. One thing at a time, sort of.
This week I did get as far as proofing "Bird In the Moon" now called "Flying High". Everything else is patiently waiting its turn.
king a mental caution note about where I take them to photograph. It took me a whole evening to sock the plates in a salt and vinegar solution and to re-sand all the plates. Seawater and sand would be an interesting etching experiment. One thing at a time, sort of.In the Studio this week:
Ideas and images copyright Debra James Percival 2008
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