More Pictures of the Etching of Lynda's Stone

 These are some of the pictures of the different processes of the etching.  The picture on the left is the finished etching before color was added.  It would have been a beautiful piece even just etched in white.

Below is the artist, Gail Morton.  The pictures aren't in the order of how the stone was etched.

 Once the paint is applied to the etched areas, it is scraped off with a razor so only the paint in the lightly etched (scratched) places holds the paint.  The places that aren't prepared to accept paint are scraped off with a razor and the smooth stone remains shiny and beautiful.

Below all of the paint has been applied and now Gail is scratching the paint off of the areas that will allow the black stone to show through.

The whole process is thinking backwards in that you are starting with black instead of white.  You have to leave a tiny black line to separate the colors as the paint flows into the different areas.  It would all twist my brain into a knot but Gail has etched for eleven years and completed this from start to finish in three hours.

AMAZING!