It's been a very nice easter weekend but I need to figure out what I am going to do for my next print. I have been doodling here and there. I want to put together a giant series of the mustached owl that documents the many adventures through his life but I'm feeling a bit nautical right. I have drawn a little boat with sails on the open sea that I like so I think that's going to be my next print project. The first step to turning this doodle into an intaglio print is to trace it onto tracing paper with a pencil that has soft, dark lead. The reason for tracing it with a soft, dark pencil is because I want to transfer it onto my copper plate. My copper plate has been sanded, cleaned, and I've melted dry hard ground onto it. (Hard ground=asphaltum, beeswax, and resin. It's pretty smelly.) To transfer my image, I will lay my copper plate face up and tape my sketch on tracing paper face down over my copper plate on the press bed. I have to make sure it is perfectly in the correct position then I crank the handle and send it through the press. If I did it correctly, my image should be transferred and I'll be able to scratch in the line work with my scribe or just a mechanical pencil.
This will probably take a good little while so I better get cracking.
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