Delta Dawn - Copper Plate Etching

BillyLee
Delta Dawn - Copper Plate Etching by BillyLee
Delta Dawn - Copper Plate Etching by BillyLee

Delta Dawn - Copper Plate Etching

This is a “Copper Plate” Etching… ( 300mm x 300mm )This is now the second edition and now is complete. The plate was aquatinted and this is the final result, no photoshop or enhancing made.

The process of etching into copper and aquatinting is a long process. In the first edition the lines are engraved and the plate printed. In the second edition the plate is aqautinted in the acid four or five times depending how many tones you want. This came out better then expected.

This composition is in collaboration with Barssel whom takes these wonderful nude photographs and lets me use them in my art…his link is Barssel
Thank you so much for your help with my art this year. I will be sending you this print when it is complete….well thats if you want one. Also I am happy to send you any print if your nude is in the art work. Send me your address and I will mail you an original print.

At the moment I am also drawing this image on an A1 paper for drawing class..it will look very different to this one.

Thanks so much….BillyLee

Ruban Jane

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Delta Dawn - Copper Plate Etching belongs to the following groups:

Art Students and Beginners, Collaboral Damage, Fine Art approaches to Figure and Face, Mature Woman, Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales, Printmakers and Printmaking, Sepia-Toned, TAFE Colleges, The Artistic Nude and Woman Appreciation
  • whisperingruth

    whisperingruth, 4 months ago

    FABULOUS collab…......2 great artists…......one masterpiece!! xx

  • Elaine van Dyk

    Elaine van Dyk, 4 months ago

    Oh, you are one amazing artist, BillyLee!!!! This is fabulous work – can’t wait to see the final version!

  • Renate Dartois

    Renate Dartois, 4 months ago

    Gorgeous art-work Billy….

  • BillyLee

    BillyLee in reply to Elaine van Dyk’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanks Elaine, as you can imagine its a line etching at the moment, at school on Thursday I will have to stop out so much and aquatint forever…then when I ink up the plate I will in it up in black and roll it in red…..then I can’t wait to see what I get also!

  • BillyLee

    BillyLee in reply to whisperingruth’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanks Ruth, he is pretty good isn’t he and the fact that he is willing to help me with my art, well I hope I get to meet him some day because he has been a huge help to me this year.

  • BillyLee

    BillyLee in reply to Renate Dartois’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanks Renate, its a long process, no wander people mostly paint, it takes forever to do a copper etching.

  • whisperingruth

    whisperingruth, 4 months ago

    That is so cool BillyLee! I’m sure you will meet up with Adey some day….....he’s so good to all his Bubble mates….....very smart caring man….......so artistic and willing to help our his artistic buddies…......although…....I think you could be teaching a few folks a thing or two yourself BillyLee!!! xx

  • madvlad

    madvlad, 4 months ago

    thanks pal, hope all is well in your life and world here winter? is going, but not with out a fight keep your art going! nice nice and nicer

  • wynity2

    wynity2, 4 months ago

    You are so incredibly talented, BillyLee!! :-)

  • Jan Piller

    Jan Piller, 4 months ago

    wow – way cool!!

  • Barssel

    Barssel, 4 months ago

    Sorry Billy…..........with being away I missed this, what an outstanding piece. I am so very pleased with this work, I am very flattered and look forward to further collaborations…...........well done.

  • BillyLee

    BillyLee in reply to Barssel’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanks Barssel, I am so excited I finished this print with aquatinting today and its the BEST I think I have ever done. This is the line version handcoloured. I am going to upload the finished version tomorrow or maybe sooner, I have only printed 3 so far, but I want you to have one for sure. You will have to send me your address. Can’t wait to show you the finished and the best print I have ever done. Thanks for helping me so much. You are the best bubble friend in the World!

  • Barssel

    Barssel, 4 months ago

    Now I am “blushing”.........................so pleased and excited for you. I would be proud to have a print of yours on my wall. Your enthusiasm is infectious and I love the spirit and energy of your work. I thank you for allowing me to be a small part of your journey.

  • Kym Breeze

    Kym Breeze, 4 months ago

    Wow Billy this is looking wonderful, your talent and style is inspiring, am glad this print is working for you, for it is working for us the viewer as well. hugs and well done xoxo

  • Arletta

    Arletta, 4 months ago

    hmmm … I went from “ooh beautiful ” to “eeeuugghh” in about 1/2 a second flat . This appears to be a really beautiful composition featuring a rather nice looking dead lady. Me no like dead ladies! I am dead lady intolerant, so much so that I don’t want any in my family and I intend never to be one! But, outside of that, this is gorgeous!

  • BillyLee

    BillyLee in reply to Arletta’s comment, 4 months ago

    Its funny you should say that because I reckon she looks dead also.in fact she isn’t meant to be dead , however, I am also doing a drawing of her at school in A1 size and apparantly she looks dead in that also. Sorry, I think she died all by herself. She is indeed not looking well, so , you are too funny….gosh, will anybody else twig…maybe I should come up with a new name for her….HOw about “Left alone”......any suggestions!

  • Arletta

    Arletta, 4 months ago

    lol Nah! Leave the name; it’s a good warning not to go out alone, or to any parties, on the Delta! I like it, anyway, maybe even more so because you don’t know if she’s dead or not. Sometimes, it isn’t what the artist intended that is really amazing, in the end, but what they didn’t even realize they created.

  • BillyLee

    BillyLee in reply to Arletta’s comment, 4 months ago

    Thanks ARletta, you are right though she does look dead….freaks me out and as you said I didn’t mean for her to appear so…today I upload the final aquatint of this in its final stage. Don’t be freaked out but I think she might look even more dead. The whole dead thing freaks me out also. B

  • Arletta

    Arletta, 4 months ago

    I’m kind of sorry I brought it up lol Anyway, it’s nicer to know it wasn’t planned. We can’t always help what some of the persons, or etc., in our work go off and do. If we could, how boring would that be?

  • Paul Compton

    Paul Compton, 3 months ago

    This is simply gorgeous. A wonderous etching. Well done BillyLee.

  • BillyLee

    BillyLee in reply to Paul Compton’s comment, 3 months ago

    Thanks Paul, I finished my second one to this set today, it took three days of aquatinting and I can’t wait to download it…..thanks for your comments. These copper plates are really exciting me and I hope to do many more this year. P.S. I will come to dinner if Egon Schiele or Ludwig Kirschner were invited? Billy

  • Wendy Slee

    Wendy Slee, 3 months ago

    intriguing and beautiful work…..the lines and tones are absolutely stunning….

  • Per Ove Sleen

    Per Ove Sleen, 14 days ago

    A wonderful picture.
    I must say I really admire your technique. It makes for very interesting and inspiring pictures.

    POS

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