Ok so today was a personal day, but in the evening as per usual I went to my print workshop where I carried on my development with the monotype process.
First the results of last weeks play.
Process: Playing with the effects of turps on the inked up plate; Flicked, Toothbrush bristles and a rag.
Process: Using flicked turps and a cut template from acetate sheet with blue ink and extender. Didn't quite work, needed to do more even coverage on the acetate and get the blend effect more prominent.
Experiment: Incorporating salt and whitening powder to the plate. Too much means the ink won't bite which is what happened, nice tester piece.
Process: This was made blending extender and ink, applying it and a sprinkling of salt, created the effect of a foreground with the roller and unextended ink.
Process: As above, however using whitening powder instead of salt, getting the distribution right will take a lot of trial and error.
This weeks experiments
Combination of flicked turps and whitening powder, needed to resize the plate as it was it a bit big for the roller.
Main aim today was to attempt a 2 layered monotype, process was easier than I had envisioned, however it is just a matter of working out the kinks, I started out too dark on the first layer, also trying to create the streaking effect with the whitening powder was an incorrect solution to a problem that has another possible answer. Using a toothbrush with a tiny bit of turps to get the same sort of effect.
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