Dry Point Etch by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley
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The price of art is time! 😊 It has taken several hours to reach this result pressing the latest copper plate by hand. There is a lot of jeopardy in this method because if you ‘miss a bit’ it shows! It is interesting that the image on the inked plate is really beautiful in a very different way to the resulting print (I was too inky to take a photograph). Archival, A4, 1/1 dry point etch by hand. I also draw free-hand on to the copper plate for extra jeopardy!😂
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Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley
"The good painter has to paint two principal things, that is to say, man and the intention of his mind. The first is easy and the second difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs." (MK388) From: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work, p16, J…
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