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Writer's pictureSimon Williams

Successful etching of the plates

Having successfully transferred the laser prints of my photos onto aluminium plate, the next step is etching in copper sulfate/salt. To improve the etch I put the etching solution in a plastic box and that into a bowl of hot water thus raising the temperature of the etch. In etching this series of plates I found that I could get 2 etches from 500cc of solution before the solution loses its potency.

The “clouds” were added using a vegetable oil as the resist – applied with a feather.

The plates are displayed below.

etched-plate-dalesfalls_jan2019-7994
etched-plate-exmoortree_jan2019-7991
etched-plate-exmoortree2_jan2019-7993
etched-plate-hartland_jan2019-7989
etched-plate-wharfdaletree_jan2019-7994
etched-plate-whealcoates_jan2019-7990
etched-plate-willows_jan2019-7988

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