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The Hangin' Tree
Published: 2007-06-22 00:07:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 17392; Favourites: 412; Downloads: 0
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Another etching from '04Here I really went crazy using my fingerprints to help etch in the dark textures around the plate to form the hill the tree stands on and the strange sky without it seeming too thought out. Then i just went ocd on the tree. i really love sketching them out with their twisting gnarled branches winding and twisting their way up.
Again I used standard black printers ink with brunt umber oil paint mixed in for the pigment
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This is a gorgeous print! Good job, the effect of the fingerprints is very impressive. The tree is greatly textured and the negative space going on in the branches really give some interesting shapes 
Awesome!
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Wonderful texture, I really love the idea of using your fingerprints.
I've been working with some printing lately, and I honestly never thought of that. It's creates a really interesting look.
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Love the texture form the fingerprints - beautiful! The grey from the plate tone (I assume? or aquatint) makes the whole thing work well together too. So many details....
Beautiful!
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The gray is just from the plate. I didn't do a complete rub down of the plate after inking it. I mostly just concentrated on highlights and other light areas in the work letting a lot of ink remain on the plate in the darker areas (especially the areas etched with my finger prints).
I'm glad you like it though!
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Thank you very much! I wish i still had an etching studio to work in.
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your welcome
awe are you no longer creating?
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Oh no. I'm still in the art/illustration game, it's just changed focus for me. Since I've moved to New Orleans, I'm pretty much limited to what i can produce in a small apartment room. That means etching is most definitely out of the picture.
It's boiled down to watercolor and digital works much nay more.
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Yeah I can see how that would be complicated. New Orleans must be beautiful. Ive always wanted to visit that place. ^^
When I did my art in my bedroom it would drive me crazy. For you actually want to walk away from your work, not just movie half a foot away from it and go to sleep. You know its there and the temptation to work on it is hard
excellent
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Great Etching, Using your fingerprints is a very good idea.
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Thank you. The only thing you lose by not experimenting on a piece is time... and time not lost on a piece will just end up getting lost in a bottle somewhere (at least with me). Might as well make that time count for something
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Hey there! 
Just to inform you this fabulous deviation has been featured in our club's journal here: [link] 
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I've added it to our 
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really nice how you used your finger prints...but i don't completely understand how you did it...did you press your finger into the warm and liquid etching ground, or did you use softground/vernis mou? i like this texture a lot!
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That is really nicely done. How did you achieve those fingerprints? Did you just use the oil from your fingers to prevent the acid biting? Does that work?
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Thanks! As for the finger prints, I might be oily, but I'm not that oily 
I was using a liquid acrylic to coat the plate instead of the more toxic asphaltum. I, for the life of me, can not remember what it was called now... we just called it "the red stuff" mostly due to it's coloration. Either way, after i coated the plate in the red stuff, I just made all kinds of finger prints in it before I heat set it. I never used asphaltum so I'm not sure if you have to heat set it to get it to dry, but you did with the red stuff.
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The tree looks amazing.
I really like the thumb prints, it's a great detail.
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Thanks! I wish only that i could do more like it... some day i guess.
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Graver man, have I ever told you you are one twisted guy? <,< Don't ever change! This is *fantastic*!
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Yes, i think you might have... and thank you too
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The tree truly does look like a creature in itself. Almost like a muscle map of intensely textured beauty. The finger printing is a very creative way to shade. Tons of props there mate. You've got my favorite.
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Haha, anytime. I was just looking through the rest of your gallery, I think I need to give your other art some love.
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I love the grungy details in this one. The detail is really phenomenal and the thumbprints really add a great texture to an otherwise flat background.
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Thank you... I had a lot of obsessive compulsive fun with this one
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It R B pretty!!!!
The finger print idea is cool not to mention that the picture is just awsome. That's all really.
luv the penguins <3uSir
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This looks like it's from another time. Fantastic. The thumbprints look like hatching at a glance and work quite well, even when you realize what they are.
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Thank you! I love works that have the old sepia or faded look and really went for that in all my etchings. There's just something about that look and feel...
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It adds mystery? The images take on a lost magic? Anyway, keep it up. I'll be back to see what you do next.
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The colors are pretty, and the entire beauty of the piece is phenomenal. Great work.
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Wow, great drawing. I,m going see what you have in gallery, cause this here is very promising
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