Playing With Scraps of ImagOn

Five plates etched this week 24 for "One With Copper"

Printmaking is a step process that involves lots of exploration. If you like to think a lot about an idea; printmaking is a wonderful medium to work in. "One With Copper" is a lot about the beauty of copper and all the possible ways to manipulate it. There are so many ways to work with copper and this week I played with some of my reject ImagOn. Over the years I have put pieces of ends of rolls away thinking I will find an interesting use for them and I have.
At the end of a lot of my ImagOn rolls there has been this stuff that has this funny wave in it. I have no idea how old this piece is, I just decided to experiment with the stuff. I found out when experimenting with exposure times that longer is better for my line drawings. The plate below is one that was exposed for two minutes and has an interesting cloud look. The above plate was exposed for three minutes. It does not effect the etching at all. As a stop out resist ImagOn works great, if there is any at all on the plate nothing will etch in that area. So you really have to make sure your down to the copper of your line drawing you exposed if you want to etch any copper.

This image is called "Circle of Love" and the photo was taken right after the plate was rinsed off after coming out of the Edinburgh Etch solution. You can buy T-Shirts on Redbubble with this image on my Redbubble profile.

This is "Trying to Come Together" all inked up and ready to be printed. The balloon I painted on with Acrylic stop out to try and not etch some of the bubbles in the ImagOn did not work. I still like the plate a lot anyway.

Proof of "Trying to Come Together"

So there is a good reason not to throw out old ImagOn and tail end scraps. They work great for line drawings and probably lots of other ideas. I etched five good plates this week, lots of fun.

Before I finish up I would like to introduce you to a wonderful artist on Etsy( ozbushfireappeal's shop)
Her name is Bridget Farmer and she donated artwork to the OzBushfire Appeal shop. I found her there and you can see more of her work and find other links to her by going to www.bridgetfarmerprints.etsy.com. I really liked her etchings!

Happy Printmaking Everyone