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little mermaid 3 by ~saderakki:iconsaderakki:

Categories Traditional Art > Printing > Etching

©2007-2009 ~saderakki
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Artist's Comments

Finished! Part of a series of three prints.

Etching, surface etching and aquatint.

When I started out I didn't like this picture much, but I love how the light came out in it.

I'll be transferring the work in progress -pics to scraps now.

Other finished parts of the series:
1
2

Earlier phases:
1
2

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~taika-kim Apr 18, 2007, 9:14:35 AM
it's gorgeous.

btw I saw the original of Pienimmästä suurimpaan in Pihlis yesterday, and almoust blew my eyeballs out, (on-screen viewed and offset-printed especially) representations of art are often so lacking...
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~Markingtime Apr 19, 2007, 12:01:04 AM
Great Job on the Water in this Etching. it turned out quite nice. Also the handrail is done well too.
and just

Great job on the whole thing!

--
Marking Time, Waiting for Death
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~saderakki Apr 19, 2007, 2:12:56 AM
Yeah, now I kind of wish I'd made the final prints brown - it is better.

Thanks :heart:
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~saderakki Apr 19, 2007, 2:15:36 AM
Thanks! The water was just something I tried surface etching on for the first time, I'm glad it works.
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~FrancescaDaRimini Apr 19, 2007, 10:36:27 PM
I really really love this series, I am glad that other people like traditional media and fairy tales :)
Was the sky gradation done with aquatint, or...? How does it look grainy like that?
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~saderakki Apr 24, 2007, 11:00:10 AM
Thank you! I'm pretty pleased with it myself :)

The sky is aquatint, there's two layers actually. The way to do gradiation with aquatint is to slowly lower the plate into the acid, and my first attempt was a disaster, it ended up with clear lines between the different tones, one of which you can still see clearly. The second layer was a lot more sparse than the first one, hence the grainier texture.
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~Windygo Apr 27, 2007, 10:07:53 PM
Beautiful transitions and contrast...
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=littleblackduck May 5, 2007, 10:46:09 PM
This is really a nice print!
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