Print Making

                             

Print Making

6th November 2012

Above are 3 very different prints. I have used various mono printing techniques to create my images.

We started off with a thin layer of an oil based ink on a flat surface. We then drew out some images on A4 sized news print paper. We then placed our image; face up, on the thin layer off ink. When the face up image was traced it left an impression on the news print.

My favourite thing about using this technique is that you can get a nice even colour. So it makes certain types of images really easy to draw. You can also create a lot of copies of the same image really easily at the same quality which is one of the reasons this technique is used so much.

The first print we did (top right) is a print we made were we were only able to use one colour so I decided to draw a skyline in the style of Jean Michel Basquiat. I deliberately made this image look scrappy and rushed because that is his style.

The second image (middle) is by far my favourite. It is a character created by Jean Michel Basquiat. I used all the same techniques that I had for the previous image but this time had added a bit of colour to make it stand out a bit more.

The far left is my least favourite as, but what i did was I used tissue to create a background. I made it in the weave style because Jean Michel Basquiat draws a lot of these random weaves in his work. The print quality of this image was a little poor because the ink wouldn’t transfer much due to the thicker paper.