Wednesday, October 20, 2010

"Lithograph Gone Bad"

Did a sketch of this image a while back (right image).  Yesterday I printed a lithograph (left image) of a modified version in sepia.  This is a good example of why you shouldn't try to redraw some images on the stone. It rolled up too dark after the second etch and I tried some things to fix it.  Fed up with the outcome and in a "knee jerk" reaction I took the stone outside and grained off the image so that I wouldn't be tempted to print it and waste 35 sheets of arches.  "If at first you don't succeed grain, grain, grain again"

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