I’m going to take you through the different printmaking processes I have done throughout these last three years within my art practice.
Monoprint
The Process:
After applying paper to an inked surface with a piece of glass or plastic, lift the paper, letting the background dry, and then repeat the process. Roll out black drawing ink whilst the previous step is drying, place a sheet of paper on the slab, and draw straight on it. Once the ink has dried, peel the paper from the slab and admire the monoprint that has been created.
Monotype
What distinguishes monoprint from monotype?
A monotype constitutes a fully original work of art. A monoprint is a print in a set of prints with some variance between them. An intaglio or relief design that serves as a basis for the series' variable elements may serve as the constant element. This could be a stamp, linocut, collagraph, drypoint, or copper plate etching. Each print in the series may be slightly different from the others in terms of how it is inked up or printed, as well as the addition of monotype or hand-coloured elements.
Linocut
To create a lino print, you essentially design the picture on the surface and then use a carving tool to remove portions of it. Upon completion of your carving, coat the remaining areas with ink and then press them onto paper. You can go through the lino printing procedure as often as you like to produce your preferred shapes and patterns. Consider it a massive stamp that you have created yourself!
Dry Point Etching
The Process:
1st image: Bold thick ink as wellas still having ink in the background. Which means I didnt clean ll the ink of the surface. Normally this would not be considered the final image and you would then be required to redo the banking process again but I however like the look of it as I think it creates a eerie theme/sense and adds a old vintage look to it as well.
2nd image: Chine colle, which is when using tissue paper with printing. having to glue the tissue paper first as it didn't want to stick to the damp paper. I think the line is a bit too faint in this print. Would need to find a happy medium between image 1 and 2.
3rd image: Good etching ink balance on the print. I think it's interesting to see how the tissue paper and colour works with the etching. whilst also being able to see the effect the etching print does next to each other.
4th image: decided to do another chine colle but this tie trying out more colours and working with lots more shapes. But I did find that the etching didn't show as much on this print. esspecically the dark blue.
Screenprinting
Challenging myself to print onto fabric as well as do multiple prints which took me ages to do, longer than I expected but once i laided them all out together i found it very rewarding considereding how much time and patiences it took and placement configuration.
I think this shows that Printmaking is all about trial an error and that you wont always get the best print.
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