Acrylic Plate Etchings.

So…..when you have a Picture Framing shop you end up with heaps of small off-cuts. I give loads of small mat board bits away to the local Primary Schools and Kindys for their projects, but no-0ne really can use the left over small bits of glass and perspex. It always seems a shame to throw them away and that’s when I became interested in acrylic plate etching. One of my very first etchings was this Spotted Owl. Now I’m totally in love with the medium and I’m scratching away constantly making beautiful prints. Just about to embark upon a suite of prints relating to the old Gold fields. My son Dean recently became interested in panning for gold and we used to live in a small town that was once a gold rush town in the early 1900s so there were plenty of old mine shafts and equipment. The town only had a pub and a shop and little else, but once there was 7 hotels and boarding houses. To look at the old maps of the streets that are no longer there is amazing. Anyway….stay tuned for these prints. They will be coming soon.

Spotted Owl
Acrylic Plate Etching

About the Author: rhonda

Rhonda Armistead is a contemporary Artist from Lismore in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia. Mediums include, Oils and Acrylics on Canvas, Reduction Plate Lino Prints, Etchings on Acrylic Plates, Drawings, Sketches in Pencil and Charcoal and Fine Line Pen. Her paintings include Portraits, Landscapes and Contemporary Abstract pieces. Commonly, she explores the intrinsic biodiversity and nature studies of the Region along with expressive portraiture and dramatic combinations of both, usually with an underlying message encapsulated within the symbolism and aesthetic of the work. Rhonda also produces a range of hand crafted jewelry under the name of "Web of Life Designs" All her works are an intimate conversation between head, heart and hand.