Art > Printmaking Process: Confluent Series

Betsey working on a spit-bite

Sugar-lift technique

spit-bite plate "biting"

Four copper intaglio plates; sugar-lift and spit-bite aquatint

Inked plates ready to print

plate being inked à la poupée

Spraying the gampi before laying it down on the inked plate

Spraying the gampi before laying it down on an inked plate

Laying the pink gampi on an inked plate

detail of dampened gampi on inked plate, ready to be trimmed

Print being printed on press; second plate of three

Print coming off press; ready to flatten and dry