Cocoon Monoprints 7

Cocoon Monoprints 6

Cocoon Monoprints 5

Cocoon Monoprints 4

Cocoon monoprints 3

Cocoon monoprints 2

Cocoon monoprints 1

This is the first of a number of monoprints I’ve made with cocoons as a theme.

 

 

 

Aquatint

Drypoint shapes

Homayra's scarf Etching

Texture 6

Texture 5 ( in 2 colours )

Texture 4

Texture 3

Ghost of Texture 2

Texture 2

Texture 1

 

 

 

Mark making 5

Mark making 4

Mark making 3

Mark making 2

Mark Making 1

More Monoprints 5

More monoprints 4

more monoprints 3

More monoprints 2

More monoprints 1

Something worth working with?

Another of the problem dandelion multi-plates ( made at the same time as yesterday’s plate) which didn’t become multi-plates because I still had some very basic things to learn. This is less effective on its own, but again I wonder if there are ways in which this is useable on its own. Something to play with in the future perhaps.

 

When is a print a print?

Sometimes it’s hard to know when something is a complete print. The print I’m posting today is a case in point. This was intended to be the first plate of a multi-plate photo lithograph from a drawing of a dandelion. It  has problems ( so many things to learn with every new process)  that I never actually made the other plates- but I actually like its fragility which is right for the subject. Perhaps you wouldn’t immediately recognise it as a dandelion- but it is.

 

A painting day print 2

Today’s print is another monoprint while painting. Today I printed over the paper I’d daubed with one of those rollers that you can buy for kids which comes with shapes on it ( stars)

Surprised  how much I like this- but then I simply love colour.

A painting day print 1

I think of myself as a painter print maker- which means that some days I simply don’t ‘print’ in so much as I don’t do anything formal. Today was one of those days, however I often end up messing about with left over bits of  paint and that’s what today’s print is- a monoprint  made on a piece of paper where I had simply daubed paint from my brush, and grabbed a small print plate I made ages ago.

Can’t say I like the raw colours- but it makes a better print than I might have imagined it would.