Really thought I’d lost this plate but put some more work into and i feel it’s starting to go somewhere.
I’ve been playing around with etching old litho plates. They are very thin so it’s possible to etch whole chunks of the plate away I (learned this trick from Peter Wray). I’ve been inking up the thin plate and a backing plate intaglio and placing the thin plate on the backing. But, I’ve been getting a 50% failure rate as the plates skid and take the paper with them making a hell of a mess.
This print is made up of two thin plates Araldited to the backing plate. Not a perfect solution as the Araldite squeezes through the holes in the plate and fills them losing some of the burn through effect I’m after.
