So that’s what an etching is

My friend Lisa and I decided to take a printmaking class ages ago now at the Pine Street Studios, thinking we’d turn up to find people doing silk screen printing on fabric (the class description was a bit vague and so, it turns out, were we) but made the happy discovery instead of a traditional printmaking course using methods for paper.

This is one of my pieces, scratched out on a piece of metal with a sharp pointy thing (yes, that’s the official term for it) and then inked and run through a printing roller. It’s trickier than it looks, but quite fun once you get into the swing of things. I popped it in a box frame and it’s now hanging in the hallway.

Click here for the entry on the printmaking course I took at Prints Charming afterwards, so I could finally get some experience with silk screening.