Aquatic Aquatint.

My line work is all etched into my plate. If I inked it up right now, It would just print my line work and there would be no tone or texture it. That's no fun and basically just a page from a coloring book. Aquatint is a technique to add texture and tone. There are two different ways to adding an aquatint. One way is to sprinkle powdered resin to the plate after the plate has been heated. The plate has to be heated so the resin melts and clings. After this, you immerse the plate in the acid bath so the acid bites the areas not covered by the resin. It creates a porous ground of tone. The longer I leave the plate in the acid bath, the darker the tone will be.