I’m having fun engraving milkweed and thistle fluff. I’m pushing the detail work more than ever, and will see if the time I am spending with the fine burin work will be worth the effort.
A 5”x7” end-grain maple block made by Jim Reynolds.
A detail photo using my macro lens. Though the areas look light and bright in the photos, much of this will appear as middle greys on the print.
I will use a few different multi-line tools to create lines that I will re-enter with a burin and change the path and thickness of the mark.
Swirls, whorls & fireworks in the negative space between the plants.