My image has been transferred onto my copper plate perfectly. I have been drawing over the lines into the hard ground with a few different tools that I briefly mentioned in my last post. I'm using a burin, a scribe, and a mechanical pencil. I am scratching away the hard ground and exposing the copper below it. After I am finished drawing out my image, I am going to spray paint the back of my plate with an opaque and smooth black spray paint. I am going to submerge the plate in an acid batch and I may want to use the back of the plate for a future project so I want to take care of it and not damage it too much. Not to mention saving the back of the plate would also save me a couple bucks and who isn't a fan of that? I put the plate in the bath of acid because the acid bites the line work into the plate. It eats at the hard ground a little but the hard ground is acid resistant so only the line work will be cut into the plate.
The acid bath is a little intimidating because it's a bath of acid and very dangerous. I am a little unintentionally careless at times and that is not so good around an acid bath. I have accidentally flicked acid into my eyes. It was not a very pleasant feeling to say the least. One interesting thing was I got to actually see the emergency eye flusher in action up close and personal.
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