Artwork description:

The zinc etching of Maid is hand painted using tempera. It portrays a model who posed for sketches in 1995, now drawn on a zinc plate using the crosshatch technique.

Tempera has been added layer by layer, gradually washing back each layer before adding the next, deepening each of the colours, adding a sepia tone sensibility, whilst also utilising the worms-eye view composition, rather than the usual viewpoint of looking down upon or directly across from the model - shifting the usual focus found in paintings of models.

Framed in an antique white mount frame with backing board in a sealed protective polybag.

Materials used:

Zinc Etching, Black Printing Ink, Tempera Waterbased Paint, Rosapina Fabriano.

Tags:

#zinc etching #yellow #brown #female art #print #printmaking #female form #etching #works on paper #intaglio #printing #tempera painting #intaglio printmaking #maid #printmaking on paper