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"But one of the problems for people with brain injury is being creative and
productive within themselves. Sometimes it is there, but it’s so rusty and torn to
the many different angles, it’s hard to fit it together again...... But you don’t
always have self-belief, and it is difficult to look back and see what you did do
once upon a time. And then perhaps you would try that element but it’s not the
same....... What I feel, thoughts and all the rest of it, I don’t always approach.
Unfortunately the bee has not got a hive to go into!"
​(from Jackie's story in 'Who Are You Now', Headway project 2016)
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TATOOED LADY!

2/2/2017

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Second week of our session, good to get started. Once you have done your drawing, thinking and looking at the reference. Yes most of the picture you are drawing from is there. What I feel within myself is for you to draw freely from within yourself. You can always look at references but you are a different person drawing.
Below are some of the stages required to make a soft ground intaglio etching with aquatint.
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After drawing the next step is to file the plates edges  to be nice and smooth
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Using Brasso polish the plate to remove grease and grime so the etching machine is nice and clean with no disturbances placed upon it
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Here's the soft ground etched plate ready to print

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Once you place your plate onto the press make sure its at a good angle with paper on top and print

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Here's Rachel rolling it through the press, not knowing how it will come out!
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Once it does come out, looking at what you have drawn can be quite joyful. It may come as surprise of what you have placed out.
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With this soft ground you can add a texture, we used a piece of lace and etched this onto the plate
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After printing again, here is our next step printed.
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After applying the aqautint we stopped out the part of the drawing we didn't wish this section which is dark to print darkened.
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This is the final product from the plate as you can see from what we darkened with the stop out is much more clearer to look at.
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Clare
2/12/2017 03:35:35 pm

Hallo! this is the first blog I've ever watched. The text is really bursting with sense, and reading this considering the ideas you are working on with the etching is really fascinating

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    ABOUT US
    The Beehive project is a three month drawing, printing and bookbinding collaboration between Rachel Thomson and Jackie Murin.


    Jackie is a participating artist at Action Space, she has been part of multiple exhibitions including the Cockpit Arts Open and 'The Shop of Curiosities' at the Geddes Gallery. She has volunteered for the Leighton Project at Elfrieda Rathbone Centre since 2009 supporting young people with learning disabilities in developing their arts practice. 

    Rachel  trained in photography and print media and has twenty years experience working as an artist. Her studio work is drawing and photography based using cyanotype, etching and monotype and is concerned with female identity and the environment. She also enjoys engaging others in the creative potential of process based art and  has been a regular artist volunteer at Action Space since October 2015.


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