Printer Bill Hall rolls the soft ground, which is a waxy acid resistant material, onto a heated copper plate. When cooled, a thin, smooth, strong piece of tissue is placed over the plate. Onto this tissue, Georgia Marsh makes her meticulous drawing of plant materials - fall weeds blanketed by snow. The soft ground is so sensitive it transfers from the plate to the tissue the slightest variation in Georgia’s pencil marks. The paper is removed from the plate which also removes the soft ground. The plate is then etched in an acid bath and the drawing is bitten into place.

Printer Bill Hall rolling ink onto the plate.

Wiping the plate with a soft cloth making sure that all of the etching marks are properly inked.

The inked plate is placed on the etching press where printer Kathy Kuehn pulls a proof and the artist and printer can commence the collaborative process of proofing, a process that determines all the final characteristics of the print - ink color, type of paper, plate size, image border and size of the edition. This print utilized the ink color Prussian black and was printed on Hahnemuhle white paper.