Print Making

many famous artists do print making, such as andy warhol and trasi henen, so we decided to have a go at print making ourselves. We used a type of printing called mono print which is quite straight forward, you roll out a thin layer ink onto a surface then place a piece of a material of your choice over the top and draw onto the material which creates a print of your drawing in ink on the side of material that is faced down. But the hard part is not to touch any part of the material other than what you are drawing as the ink will print onto the material where you have touched it and give you an unclean looking image. to create the image you can use many different objects, for example you could use a thicker object for thicker lines or something very small for sharp lines also the more pressure you apply to the object the darker the lines would come up.

after doing a few testers with random images and techniques to get the hang of things, we had to find an image to use that linked to a specific artist that we were given as part of a "doodle" project, in our case the artist was Keith haring. I chose to do a print of a man in the style of the image of Keith's work show above and i printed it onto backgrounds that i had successfully constructed myself of materials such as newsprint, cartridge paper, parcel paper, sugar paper and news print. A few of the prints i created are shown below.

This is my favourite print of the series i created, I did this by printing in blue ink onto newsprint and tissue paper of multiple colours. I got quite thick and bold lines with this print as i applied more pressure to the object i was using to create the print which was a thick graphite stick. I think that this print came out nicely even though i accidentally placed my finger in two places and causing a slight transfer of the ink.

This was my first attempt at creating my own background and i do not like the outcome i did not use enough colour and do not like the thin lines that are quite faint, this image was printed using a pencil which is why the lines are thin and i could not apply much pressure to darken the lines as the pencil would have snapped.