some print making

I decided to post up some photographs of the lino prints i made in class today. The first one is a regular black inked plate. After that, i had the time to get creative and try different techniques. I got to explore with different coloured inks (layering colours and putting down colours before hand), different papers (a brown paper bag and newsprint) , chine collé (a technique where you put paper onto your lino block and when you put it through the press it gets pressed onto your sheet of paper - i actually used brown paper towel as the paper.) The white on white piece is an embossment. So it the opposite of all the others in terms of composition because the "white" space becomes the design. I accomplished this by wetting the piece of paper that i was printing on, and then layering felts on top of my block and making the pressure very high on the printing press. In result, the pressure squeezes the paper into the cut out regions (which usually show up as white on regular inked compositions). It was fun to experiment with all the different techniques. I felt like i was in kindergarden again... well maybe not kindergarden..but it was nice to really experiment! which i dont get to do a much with the rest of my design work. If anyone has the opportunity to go printmaking i would totally suggest it!

Thats it for now!

Bisous