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Turning Photographs into Digital Etching Patterns
Lately I have been interested in etching metal with more organic, botanical looking patterns. Here's an example of an image of tree branches etched onto copper sheet I did yesterday: (Not really recognizable as a tree, but I think it will be an interesting texture to use somewhere.) I don't really draw, and I dislike using ink as a resist (it just doesn't cooperate with me), so for etching, I stick to printed black and white digital images with a toner resist, which is what I did for the…
