10/6/15

Grained transfer stone 2 to remove existing image.
Diluted acetic acid was washed on small stone 2 as before to thouroghly de-grease it prior to drawing.

Started to work on small stone 2 adding tapes (directly this time not using gum arabic paper) and drawing and adding turpsy washes and marks from rubbing block to give different tonal values.

                                              Snmall stone 2 with tapes and tusches



 11/6/06

Carried on with small stone 2 adding more turps tusches, rubbing block and litho crayons. Scatched in to define marks
Tapes removed and where tusche had bled excess scraped away with Stanley knife

                                               Small stone 2 with tapes removed

Stone left to rest for an hour or so (not as long as with previous stones as largely dry materials used to make drawing)
French chalked and atzol placed
Strong  nitric acid applied to edges to clean them up!
Medium strength acid applied to darker washier areas to open them up. Gum arabic placed on top and stone dried. Left to rest until next week when will wash out NAM, second etch and file edges

Found new stone to grain! However image been present for some time so may be a challenge to clean!
Washed GA away - then turps to remove ink - then washed and dried.
Old image was removed with oil patch cleaner (kept moving with brush every 10 minutes)

The stone was then scrubbed with Vim and washed.
Citric acid solution was used to remove rest of the drawing -moving the solution around with gloved fingers then scrubbing. The stone was then washed and dried  and then grained using coarse grit for 45 mins / medium grit for 20 mjnutes.
Tested if all drawing had gone by LIGHTLY rubbing a turpsy oily rag over surface of WET stone (don't allow to dry - as stone will absorb stain and leave a mark - I learnt the hard way!) - 
This was washed off thouroughly - (if necessary use vim) The image was still there so next week to grain for another 30 mins using medium grit then 30 mins with the fine.