Scanned in some lace for one of the backgrounds and then found the above lace pattern on a website called 'historical graphic lace prints'. I wanted them to look rather flamboyant and heavily patterned- making my portraits look quite lavish. hopefully.
There were bubbles in the photoetching paper (which I had not noticed at the time as I was trying to rush) when I placed it on the copper so as soon as I exposed my drawing onto the plate and then placed it in the sodium carbonate, all the areas where the bubbles had been washed off.
Had to redo the patterns with stop-out varnish which takes a while to dry and is also very hard to get on without blobbing it everywhere...
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