Here are a few photos of my rocks and the area where they came from:

This tryptich was edited in photoshop to show a sequence of events, from entering the area where I found the rocks, their location and a collection of the rocks overlayed into the water

A collection of drypoints and etchings printed onto rust dyed and eucalypt dyed paper:

More etchings and drypoint onto undyed paper:

 

    

       

Lino cuts on paper

 

Screen prints onto rust dyed fabric:

Using a freezer paper stencil

Using wax crayon to frottage the rocks directly onto the silk screen as a resist for printing

Printed into my journal

Experiments with rust printing through a silk screen, idea read in a recent Quilting Arts magazine, see article below:

    

On the left are the rock images used to make a small solar silk screen and on the right are the iron screen printed images into my journal using the techniques from the article above

A few final experiments with frottage on the left and on the right I used a sakura clear glaze gel pen to draw some rock images and then painted over (under as well), the gel pen acts like a resist and gives some interesting effects: