Small Mono Prints.

So for experimentation with printing techniques... The teachers decided to make use produce some Mono Printing work. 

 Out of every form of print making and producing art. I seriously hate this one out of all of them.
Mono printing and Lino printing have to be two of the worst forms of printing. The main reason i hate this method is because you have to coat the table in the ink, get some paper and take off an excess ink and then put the paper down to draw on so the ink transfers underneath. But then you have to remember that if you print any numbers or letters they have to be backwards because when they print it`ll come out backwards.
That`s the main way that we arrange the printing. We also use plastic sheets or think cartridge paper to put the ink on. But they are always being used up by kids in the lower years who are studying art.

 So i based my Mono prints off of the Stanton Cemetery photography that i did, no one else has been using primary sources for their prints so at the minute i seem to be in the Art Teachers good books.
I just thought it would be a good idea t use something so morbidly depressing and then turn it into a print that doesn`t have to be as depressing as the original image.
With two of these prints i`ve changed the colour of the inks so they look a little brighter. The original ink colour was actually way to bright though so i added just a little bit of black and then rolled it into together.
Then on one of the prints i used different coloured inks to fill in the blank spaces.

 The best way to add the coloured inks without messing it up is by using a light box and drawing on the back, filling in the blank spaces and then flipping back over for printing.
I know a lot of people who just use different coloured paper or they just use one colour ink and the coat the whole sheet in the ink. But to me that just seems way to plain... if you want to experiment with printing then it`s best to try and make a lot of random looking backgrounds with different colours.
if i was to go back and make my prints again the i think i would make some more random-er looking backgrounds and then add the depressing imagery on top of them to add a clashing effect.







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