This etching was done using a zinc plate with a photo sensitive coating, but instead of using a photo process I used my etching scribe to draw through the coating and then used an acid bath to etch the lines. This was drawn from life and the thin but strong ground gave me the opportunity to use fine flowing lined to describe the elegant forms in this old fir tree. This tree is one of several this size in a park close to my home, Fairhaven Park, established in the 1880’s.
I used transparent watercolors unique self blending quality to achieve the soft transition of colors in the sky and foliage.
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