Rusty techniques

A fever of rusting has afflicted some creative friends recently. The shapes and marks they have achieved have been both fascinating and intriguing but the colour is the thing that piqued my interest - maybe this is the way to introduce some natural colour to my prints.

First rust print- washers, screw heads and alan keys all found in an old tin in the garage.

Leaving things sat on the paper overnight made shapes too strong to over print.

Randomly placed pieces, lifted before the rust print is too strong and then re-placed to create overlaps has better potential for me.

I found that spraying a much recommended tea solution added too much colour to the paper, but a very salty solution sprayed from a plant mister released the rust print in a controllable way.

Delicious marks in close up.

A large washer, found appropriately in the print co-op car park, produced rust that was too strong for the final image, but shows there could be potential.
Next step is to print on the testers shown above.