Alongside his experiments in painting, in autumn 1894 Munch began making etchings and lithographs, mostly mirror-images of motifs in the paintings. Munch’s early lithographs, like his etchings, show a highly experimental approach – random color combinations, sometimes left up to the printer’s discretion, scraping techniques, heavy ink strokes combined with crayon drawing, and deep black areas opened up with sharply engraved white lines. In terms of motif, many of these works, like the 1890s paintings, are determined by an interplay of dissolution and materialization.