Dry Needle-Point Etching and Acrylic

First of all I re-drew the page as I mentioned in the previous post the last one wasn't really right.

Now that this was a lot closer to be right than the previous drawing I scratched it into a dry-needle point plate.

I printed it in black and white and tried to add colour.  Unfortunately I didn't really get the effect I wanted, I think that's something I would have to have a lot more practise in before getting right.  I don't have great scans or photos yet but here are some samples of what I did.

As I wasn't really happy with these I tried to make digital changes to see if I could improve them but any qualities they did have were only lost.

I then went back to my inspiration to see what I could try next to improve it.  I mainly looked at the Fuseli paintings but also had a quick look at the coloured stills from George Méliès' films.

I felt that liht was a really important element and one also important to my project.  I decided to do my favourite and my best and paint the different layers.

I then photoshopped the different layers together.

I then showed these both, the etchings and painting to my teacher Frank.  He did really like the etching because of the motion that it added I do agree with him.  He also made the comparison to what I was doing to the paintings by William Blake.

Thinking of the comments Frank had made and the colours and textures in the William Blake pictures, I then decided to combine the etchings that I did and the painting and by jove I think I've found the answer. 

I particularly like this last one as the layers blend together really well.  Obviously these images are a bit rough as they're just sketches but I would say that this is the technique I would like to continue with.