PAUL BONG | 'Leaves of scrub-tree' | Mezzotint print Edition:1/50 Framed Collaborating printer: Dian Darmansjah

Collaborating printer: Dian Darmansjah

Puru Dhangal

Paper size: 40 x 60 cm

dance and language

Produced through KickArts Contemporary Arts Indigenous Residential Printmaking Program with support from The Copyright Council of Australia's Cultural Fund and the Australia Council for the Arts in partnership with Lockhart River Art Centre

PAUL BONG | 'Leaves of scrub-tree' | Mezzotint print Edition:1/50 Framed Collaborating printer: Dian DarmansjahThese are the first mezzotint prints I have done. I work from my own studio on the main street of Innisfail and now do all my printing myself. Mezzotints are different to etchings and they take a very long time to make the image on the surface of the metal plate. I bought a tool and I use that to rock back and forth and scrape and burnish the copper or zine plate to get the different tones, the light and dark areas. These are my representations of