I took the inspiration for my print from this photograph of a night street scene in Manhattan.
I took a number of night time photographs around Manhattan and chose this one with the intention of doing a series of night prints but to date this is the only one!
I wanted to introduce colour and so decided to do a two plate etching one in a yellow colour to convey the night time fluorescent lighting and then the black plate with the main drawing.
I used softgrounds which is a wax covering on the plate to do the drawing, and did some burnishing to convey the light from the street lamp.
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19th September 2018
Yellow plate on the press
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19th September 2018
Yellow plate printed
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19th September 2018
Positioning blocks in place
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19th September 2018
Black plate in position
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19th September 2018