22/09/2016

Today in Claire's lesson we started making mono prints. We did this using a plastic wallet taped to our desk and water based inks. Mono printing can be done in two different ways, you can free hand a drawing straight into the printing ink and the put your paper over the top or you can put the paper over the top and draw over the paper. I chose to freehand my mono prints because I wanted a selection of different unique prints. Mono printing worked out really well, my wood textured prints and close up mushroom prints went the best. I will think about this when I am creating my final lino print. Today in Claire's lesson we also created a colagraph plate by layering up different textures and pieces of card we then covered it with emulsion ready to use next.