ATA: Monoprint and Lino Print.

When I went to the workshops I really didn't go with much in mind. I still haven't decided anything concrete about my final piece. I hadn't done much past working on A5. 

I really enjoyed monoprint the most, it was quick and fun to get some interesting work out of. 

I tried a few different techniques; drawing in pencil on the back of the piece of paper to create a few different shapes, using a cotton bud stick to wipe away ink so when I pressed the paper down in created a nice pattern and I also tried placing different textures on the plastic to get a nice pattern too. I really liked the paper I used for my red Midori images (it came out shiny and new looking) but the image itself was one of my weaker ones (this was later discussed in a crit). The purple cat images were defintely my favourite just because of their playfulness. 

I did like mono print but I'm not sure that it will be right for my final, it feels too loose and doesnt quite fit in with the structural mysterious feeling that surrounds Murakami's writing.

Lino Printing was very different. I had never (ever!) tried Lino print before so I was quite nervous with it. I copied an image that I had already created in my book with papercuts for my first attempt. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be, so knowing this now I might try it again with something a little more complicated and see how it turns out. I created 3 small lino pieces (her back, a cup of tea and takahashi low fat milk) that were symbollic of what had happened to characters in the book. After I had created them I tried them out in different combinations. I like how they aren't neatly in lines and a little off centred. 

It gives an almost comic book feel to the work but I think if I created a set of three this could very easily be my end product when I have created a final image I want to work with. 

I liked screenprint as equally as I liked lino print so I think it's just a case of creating a really good few final images (I'm pretty decided on making a poster rather than a book) and trialling them both out, make one as a lino and one as a screen and then decide from there. 

LIKES 

• Really liked the mono print looseness 
• Carrying cats through as a theme 
• Need to do some more mono prints before I decide for sure what I should do 
• Yellow and blue really popped as colours

DISLIKES 

• I liked lino but I didn't know what I was going into so I think next time I would pick better things to do in Lino 

PLAN

• More mono prints 
• more reading (not sure I have enough to work with at this point) 
• Less people more cats, more landscapes.