Preparing an etching plate or a wood block or a silk screen is just the first stage of creativity in making an original print. The second creative input comes with the actual printing – the inks, papers and special effects you use. I printed the one above using the ‘double drop’ technique, printing the plate first in Vermilion and secondly in Prussian Blue. Although it’s quite monochromatic, it has a richer, more intense colour than the print below, which was just printed once, in black ink.
Yes, I prefer the top print as well. There is more depth.
There certainly is, more subtlety too
Double drop, in this case at least, is definitely more interesting.
Yes, i think it has a depth that the other doesn’t have