I chose the etching workshop on the Low Res. The others didn’t really appeal to me. At least this year I was a little less ‘rabbit in the headlights’, although I’m not sure about my choice just to draw wavy lines. The etching process was fine – I remembered most of it from last year.

I quite like them when they are placed side by side.

And then Paul mentioned the word ‘aquatint’. I had trouble with it last year – working out what was going on. I understood it a bit better this time, but I don’t think that my image was best suited to it. At times the fine lines disappeared and I was left with blocks of tone, and even Paul’s suggestion to use extender didn’t really make it any better. A bit of creativity in the inking up process just about had me feeling ok about it. This is probably the best one.

When I got home I cut up the ones that didn’t really work and played around with weaving using varying widths.

I like the last one best. I might experiment with them a bit more.