Print Making

I have created a series of A4 mono prints, I have done this by drawing a particular image onto newsprint then I placed the newsprint with the drawing face up onto a vary of thin coloured inks and used different materials to get different effects, for example I used a pencil to outline the actual image and I also used a graphite stick to shade in particular areas. Once I was happy with what I had done, I would then lift up the newsprint paper and either add another colour using the same process or I would let it dry out by putting it onto the wire rack.

1). The first attempt at mono printing I used a picture of a Lily and then drew it onto a piece of newsprint paper. When it came to placing the image onto the ink I stuck to just black ink around the outline of the drawing, so I could get use to using this process. I rather like this final outcome I got as although it is basic, it got every detail that I needed within my lily.

2). The second attempt at mono printing I used the same image of a lily and re-drew it out onto a piece of newsprint paper. But this time after I placed it onto the black ink from outlining it, I used other colours to make the lily stand out more. Unfortunately this process didn't work out as well as I hoped it to be, as when I placed the red on top of the yellow, I didn't think it through and it made my lily look messy with unnecessary blotches of red onto of it.

3). The next mono print I decided to draw onto newsprint paper was an image from Tilleke Schwarz work and that was a childlike drawing of a cat. I strangely like the final outcome as with the choice of colours I used and how the stripes on the cat had been done, it gave it a really good effect and make it more fun and quirky, despise how terrible the cat has been drawn.

4). The final mono print I did was an image of a cartoon cat I found off of the Internet, I used only two colours on this piece of work, which was simple but gave a good effect in the end, I used a graphite stick throughout all of this piece so it would look bold and would stand out even more compared to the thin line drawing of the lily, which was done in pencil.