Is there a safer way to make aquatints then dusting with resin?
Dusting with enamel spray paint or running damp hard ground through press in contact with fine sand paper to open up dots. — I just realized… you could probably mist a plate with a fine spray of acrylic floor polish tinted with food color for visibility. There are fine misters that are hand pump with air as the propellent and some cleaning products come with trigger pumps capable of fine sustained misting. After biting the floor polish can be removed with household ammonia rather than the more toxic hydrocarbon solvents used to remove spray paint or resin. People are starting to use acrylic floor polish in place of traditional hardground as an acid resist… in this use it doesn’t even need to be removed from the plate prior to inking and printing since its gloss surface gives a nice clean wipe. — When I still etched I really preferred the more raw look of softground and would develop tones by purposefully foul biting softground or etching it after blotting it with a textured paper
