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Deep One

Deep One
Etching
Spring 2006

So my boyfriend found this picture of the occult god Cthulhu and asked me to make a print after it. So I did. I altered the pose just a little and made two plates, one with the line drawing and one with the watery bubbles, it was after the learning experience with the Black Eye, so I tried to use the multiple etching process to get different lighter and darker shades to my advantage. So, for example, the eye is not a different color but simply deeper etched.

Black Eye

Black Eye
Etching
Spring 2006

Believe it or not, but this is the same plate that created Eye. However, I was playing around with etching the same plate again. So I was trying to get bright highlights and mid tones, but it came out all black really instead. I still get the eye shape from it and in the actual piece there are darker outlines to the shapes, but I kind of like how really abstract this one became.

Eye

Eye
Etching
Spring 2006

Here was one of the other early projects in printmaking. We were practicing etching trimetal plates and this was really the first one I did. This abstract eye shape was inspired off Blank Face, and soon after I created an abstracted ear piece as well, but that one was 22x30 so I don't have a scanner large enough to post it.