More Sugar lifting!

Two plate sugarlift etching, testing my skills at registration!

In my quest to move away from drypoints, as you know I have been experimenting with sugar lift aquatints.  Here are a few of the tests and experiments.  The bugs got a little more creative inspired by a recent visit to the reserve collection in the Zoology Museum in Cambridge.  What a treat that was!  We also visited the Tate Print Collection on Wednesday and got to see some beauties close up.  I just loved this early Hockney print, which I believe is his first etching... puts me to shame!  Below are some photos from last week.

Abstraction from a landscape painting in sugarlift aquatint

Dragonfly Abstraction - 1.50 x 2 approx.

Flower Mantis sugarlift -  1.50 x 2 approx.

David Hockney - Myself and my heroes. Better image to be found with Tate link