Mono Prints and Lino Print Work!

 I`ve been trying to make a start on some sort of print work, since the screens still aren`t ready to print yet (silk screen printing). So I`ve started working on some small Lino prints and Mono prints.

I`m looking forward to having my brain designs put on screen since it`ll be the first time that I won`t be using something that`s been rushed and hand drawn. But since we`ve moved into the new building that the sixth form has, and we`ve lost sooo much art equipment in the move... we`re only just trying to get back to normal and It`s been a month now.
So as a compensation I`ve been trying to continue with some form of print work, as a basic i`ve been working on some small linos and A4 Mono prints. 

For m mental health project I`ve been trying to do some prints of pills, the lines came out slightly un-even and odd and I`ve been told that they look like bacteria. The colored pill print was a mis-print, I have no idea as to how I accidentally mis-printed it, but I`m simple like that so i`m not too surprised. The other two are done on brown packaging paper and normal A4 white paper. They are slightly smaller than A4 though whilst the Mono Prints are A4 size and are based off of the photography I`ve done. 

The Mono prints are all taken from the photography that I did earlier on in the project, which I think I uploaded on the blog... Probably somewhere on here. I`ve used the plain black printing ink on all of them, I was going to try and use the colored Mono printing ink but the consistency was too thick and gloopy to use. I might try and use it again, but perhaps when the sixth form order some new printing inks because those ones are just ewww at the moment. 

So the images that I used where suggested by the teachers, they recognized them as the best photos that i took; so they knew that these would be the best to do, even though I did say that i agreed with them and i wanted to use them anyways... Impatient.
the first Mono Print is of the chain that holds the gates shut at the train tracks, the second is of a Landscape near the tracks, the third is the side of the track that you can walk down freely and the last image is of the track behind the gates that you aren`t supposed to walk down... Despite all of the man sized holes in the fence right next to the gate... 

So the first image is very plain and is just done with black ink. The second and third was a little bit more difficult and then took longer to print on. I had to soak the paper, without ripping it, and then I dripped some ink over the top so it would bleed out and take different shades in different places. It turned out even better because the ink came out very, very blotchy and un-even; The ink I used on the paper takes the attention away from the blotchy and thick ink.
Then this very last image, it`s the same normal Mono printing ink; but I added some seriously strong bleach and it added a nice looking earthy tone to the image. It`s something that I`ve only tried once and it looks rather weird... I guess. The ink wasn`t too blotchy when I did it, so the bleach worked nicely and made a pale peachy/orange color.

I`ll update again when I`ve got a bit more work done, a and hopefully some screen prints!

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