first print

This simple line drawing print was quite effective for me in working with ink and line quality. The print is solely concerned with the beauty of line as composition. How the ink changed the original drawing made the marks come alive and take on an energetic quality. From this print, the beauty of line was carried into the next prints. In my teaching of botanical painting, frottage can become an excellent tool for use in the detail of the veins in a leaf and similar fine structural details. Printmaking would become an essential part of a botanical program.