Mezzotint Workshop

Just back from an enjoyable weekend running a mezzotint workshop at my friend Alan Birch's Prospect Studio. One of my favourite places to go. Always a friendly welcome and groups of enthusiastic printmakers willing to take on something new. Of the eight artists, 4 had been on a workshop that I had run here last year but the others were new to the technique. Working on plates around 3 inches by 4 inches these are excellent results from just two sessions of 6 hours each.

The plate above I feel is an amazing piece of work from someone trying the technique for the first time. More incredibly this photo was taken after only 3 hours of  work.

Lunar

After some reworking of the plate I'm finally happy with the new mezzotint of the full moon. My initial intention was to show the full face of the moon brilliantly lit against the soft black background. This however just looked flat without any impression of a globe shape. So I re-rocked the right hand side of the plate (the left side of the print) to darken it, and when I wiped the plate after inking left some plate tone here to further darken the edge. Although not how I had originally planned this print to look I'm much happier with the result.

Luna

Mezzotint

200mm x 150mm