Thursday, 19 November 2015

Monoprint and lino print Induction

- Today was a really positive and exciting day! thoroughly enjoyed putting my prints into practice. getting out of my sketchbook and being in the print room really has motivated me to get in the print room more often from now!

- I selected my deer image from my sketchbook as a starting point. 
- Lino
- For the Lino print - I had to think about how to translate the texture and detail for block printing. - chose to create a silhouette.
- i was actually pretty pleased with my lino cuts. - i thought that they would perhaps be too simplistic, and was unsure about if the lines were deep enough - would it pick up the detail? but the final prints are actually quite lovely.
- think that the silhouette works effectively - simplistic shapes are often be - bold, contrasting. 
- I like the gradient of ink in some of the images that provides some texture to the background.
- i like that once the lino is cut you can just keep repaying the printing process - trying different colours and layering perhaps with other images?
- really enjoyable process - love the fact these are hand printed! real authentic quality about them.


- Mono-printing
- this is process that I've always wanted to explore further since our first induction last year, but never got round to doing it! i am grateful that we are being given the opportunity to learn more about, and incorporate this process.
- …Despite having an interest it has always confused me. `i struggle to get my head around the whole process of relieving different levels of ink - and getting details.
- There are two types of moonoprint. - using stencils to releiev different pressures of ink - creating some lovely gradients! - this can be quite a time consuming process, as once you ink up a plate each time under the press it fades more and more.
- its very difficult to re create the same print twice. - requires a lot of patience! but beautiful effects can be created.
- each time you want to create a new relief you have to press through the machine which can also be quite time consuming.
- The method which i focused on the most was; - firstly inking up the plate, then positioning a piece of paper on top - with a design that i wanted to print on top of that. - i then used a pencils pressure to trace my design - leaving the impression from the inked up board onto my paper.
this created some really subtle and delicate textures - perhaps this method better for creating details?



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