Chapter 2b

Designs using monoprinting method:-

Using acrylic paint with the gel printing plate

Sample 1

Blue acrylic on orange paper

Sample 2

On blue patterned paper (from 2a) with paper resists with metallic gold paint

Sample 3

Utramarine over paper shapes then orange

Sample 4

Blue mixed with white on blue paper

Sample 5

Blue/white – marks with cotton bud – then metallic orange

Sample 6

Blue then gold applied in both directions

Sample 7

Metallic orange – plate had some residual marks on from a previous print which showed through quite effectively then metallic gold printed over

Sample 8

Ultramarine on plate then orange (Process Magenta and Process Yellow)  moved with a wedge.

Sample 9

Blue patterned paper with gold

Sample 10

Blue with paper spirals then orange shaped with wedge

Sample 11

Orange with Ultramarine and Payne’s Grey mixed. Rolled through a stencil.

Sample 12

Decorated paper with blue/grey mix as above rolled through a stencil

Sample 13

Made from second (ghost) prints done after lifting samples 10 and 11

Samples 14a and 14b

Not actually monoprinting but the pattern of the stencil used in Sample 12 was clearly left on the roller and I rolled it on the paper…

Spiral Drawing using Photoshop CS5 and Corel Paint Shop Pro PhotoX2

scribble

curlicues

twirl

another scribble

curlicues

twirl

and some extra scribble

curlicues

extra curlicues

 

extra twirl

and again

polar coordinates

and again

Lisianthus bud

taking a twirl

Sketchbook pages

Evaluation