Printing with blue 1

Today I’ve been playing around with some part printed stuff I found as part of my tidy up- printing is more fun than tidying. The trouble is that coming back to things I have lost the original momentum, so I can’t say I’m overly enamoured with any of the stuff I’ve printed today.

I also seem to have had a bit of a problem with the registration (which isn’t totally spot on for the second pass through the press) but as I’ve cropped the photos that’s not obvious. Not the best photos either as the light was poor by the time I took these, and so there’s a bit of flash reflecting on the ink.

So all in all not the greatest- but something new to post for today.

This print is one of a number I think I started to make at the beginning of last summer. I was playing with very abstracted landscapes- where there were only simple lines and shapes, and circles for trees, each taken from a series of photographs I’d taken earlier in the year.  

I simply copied the basic shapes and over printed in a rather beautiful blue. Not the best prints- but something to work from as , with many of the monoprints I make, I see the ones that don’t ‘work’ as I might wish as contributing to developing new work.