Initially I tried to get the raised text effect using aluminium, zinc and steel but none of them worked. I was using copper sulphate as the mordant.
sharpie marker on zinc etched in copper sulphateI did proofs of the plates, only yesterday - I had not bothered to do them after I finished etching the plates because I could see that if I rolled ink across them I would get the background area as well as the handwriting. Which of course wasn't what I wanted. As can be gleaned from reading the previous post I wanted to be able to offset the text to acetate to then work on (a la monotype) and to be able create figurative imagery by additive or subtractive means.
Just thought I would see how they looked. I quite like the larger of these which is done on steel. I wrote the handwriting on the plates using a sharpie marker - to act as a resist. I used the same ink mix on these - its funny how different the color looks?!
