Come up and see my etchings.......

Over the past few weeks I have been working on my zinc plate, slowly painting out areas with bitumen and having many dips in the acid bath (the plate not me) till I had totally covered the whole plate.
This photo is a bay in NZ that I took last year while there on hols and thought it would be an interesting shot to try to replicate.




This is a proof of the original line drawing before I started the etching process.



This is the first print to see if it was going to work, it's really difficult to get your head around the fact that you slowly black out the whole image and work backwards blacking out the light areas first, I think it worked - don't you?.