Last stage of an edition of 12

A Search for “The Golden Spike”, 2014, intaglio, 12×22 cm print, 30×40 cm paper

The light grey tone was the first, red second placed and registered over the grey and then the black area was printed last. I hadn’t done a drypoint using rollers and roulettes to get tonal areas as opposed to aquatint and etching with acid combined with masking out different areas of the composition. The result, which I’m still adjusting to, is more graphic than my usually painterly look especially without any chine-colle application.