Intaglio Etching & Watercolor: Listening

Listening 2.75 x 3.5 Intaglio Etching [Artists' Proof] with Watercolor
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Beveling a zinc plate to make an etching.

Drawing through a waxy ground on the plate, and taping the bevels in preparation for an acid bath.

Inking the etched plate to push pigment into the tiny holes etched by the acid. This is followed by wiping the top surface clean, and leaving ink embedded in the tiny etched wells.

After going through the press, pulling the artists' proof. This is a test image; the plate will be coated with ground again, and the process continues in this cycle until the art is finished and ready for printing an edtion.

The proof, before I painted it with watercolors.