Etching on paper
Signed and numbered on the front.
This moody study is of the beautiful seed pod of the coastal banksia.
It is made using the mezzotint technique: a metal plate is evenly roughened (creating thousands of tiny burrs) and then slowly an image is created by manually scraping and polishing the roughened surface. Ink is rubbed onto the plate, and when the ink is slowly cleaned off, brighter spots emerge where the metal burrs have been removed and polished away.
The plate/image is 10 x 10 cm, on archival Hahnemühle 300 gsm printmaking paper (19 x 27 cm in size).