My passion is etching and mezzotint. I work as a painter in different medias also but my favourite painting technique is watercolour. Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual. And printing is the last step in transferring the image from plate to paper.
Mezzotint is another method for creating drawing on the metal plate.
The mezzotint ground is a kind of scratch tone caused by scratching the surface of the plate with a tool called a rocker. This tool has many sharp-pointed metal teeth set on a curved plane. The tool is rocked over the plate by hand ,scratching the surface and raising a burr. When the surface of the plate has been roughened by the teeth of the rocker,I draw on it by scraping,flattening and polishing the plate. The final print resembles a sharcoal drawing - tonal areas are soft and gray, and edges of shapes are fuzzy.