Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Mother's Love


What you are seeing above is about an 8 x 10 " copper plate that has had a layer of hardground set on it. With an etching needle I carved out bits of hardground to expose the copper underneath. This image is of a mother embracing her infant child. I used simple lines to illustrate this and then started the process of filling in the spaces between with ornamentation and symbolism that ties into the patterns, letters, and numbers, I'm created in my other works for the show.



Here are some images of the completed carving. The top image shows it oriented correctly and the bottom image shows it sideways. I have yet to etch this plate yet, but will include more images as soon as I have printed a few of these.

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