View of Marshall - Etching buy & Engraving, Hand-printed original print

Etching and Engraving.
Plate size 3 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches.
Sheet size app.7 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.
Edition of 125.
Signed in pencil.
Printed by the artist

Story of View of Marshall
This etching was drawn on the Point Reyes peninsula side of Tomales Bay, sitting on Picnic Beach looking across the bay buy towards the tiny town of Marshall. I paddled my kayak across the bay from my home in Marshall. Many mornings it would be glassy smooth until about 11:00 a.m. when wind and waves would start up. It was a beautiful place to wake up in every day.
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This piece is sold two ways:
1) Just the etching, unmounted and unframed, with a description of the piece included along with a description of the process. The piece is enclosed in a plastic sleeve protector and shipped flat in rigid packing.

2) Mounted (attached temporarily to rigid foam core or mat board with acid free tape) and unframed with the description adhered to the back, enclosed in a plastic sleeve protector. A description of the process is included along with an extra description of the piece which can be adhered to the back when the recipient mats and frames the piece. This mounted version makes it easier to give as a gift as it is more protected and can be handled or wrapped. It is shipped flat in rigid packing.
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This etching was hand-printed on an etching press from a zinc or copper etching plate created using tools & techniques varying little from Rembrandt's in the 1700's. An etching hard ground (dark coating consisting mostly of beeswax and tar) was applied to the hand-polished plate and the actual drawing was done into this dark waxy ground with a sharp stylus (etching needle) which exposed the shiny metal. This original drawing was destroyed during the etching process as the drawn plate was immersed in an acid bath and sequentially removed, washed off, dried off and had areas that had etched enough tarred out (protected by painting on liquid tar). Finally the entire ground with tarred out areas was removed with paint thinner. Preliminary prints were printed and this process was repeated several times as Stephanie developed the composition. Finish work was done by hand cutting areas with a burin. The finished plate (with lines and marks now below the surface) was hand-inked and wiped with the highest quality thick etching ink, and printed on the finest quality etching paper (100% rag acid free French made Rives BFK.)