Fairy Armadillo

"Fairy Armadillo" is an odd little print that has a wonderfully mysterious antique quality. It was created by combining two processes: Van Dyke Brown, which is an alternative photographic process that turns the image a deep permanent brown, and “spit-bite” etching, which is painting on a copper plate using a strong dilution of nitric acid and water to bite the painting into the plate. The image itself was created by blending two photographs I took at University College London’s Department of Zoology Bone Museum back when I was a student at The Slade School of Fine Art. This is one of those ideas which took over a decade to finally make it to finished print. "Fairy Armadillo" was exposed and printed at the Honolulu Printmakers Workshop, Hawaii, in 2004.
H 8.25” X W 22”

"Fairy Armadillo" - $ 200