This series of photographs shows me making prints as part of a series of images where I have appropriated and adapted Goya’s print Great deeds! Against the dead!
I create two prints, one a relief linocut and the second is a zinc plate etching with aquatint. The photographs and their captions walk you through the process of creation, from my original pencil drawing to the final prints…
Click on each gallery to open a slideshow with captions and full size images.
Relief printing: –
Acid etching with aquatint: –
Further inspired by the Chapman brothers and a happy accident (see the gallery below) I plan to add to the print in various ways. For example I want to embellish the white areas representing the missing corpses, I’m thinking of adding shredded Chinese newspaper print, red ink finger prints, scrunched up tissue paper, etc. I’ve also considered colourising the prints using watercolour paint, aquarelle ink, or by using multiple lino blocks and additional stages during the lino print process.
Here is a photo of the happy accident and some of my photoshopped ideas…
