Monoprint

This piece began with a sheet of colored paper.  I cut pieces of tissue paper and newspaper and glued it on to create an interesting background.  When I cut out the newspaper, I used images of Marina Bay Sands and a watch face.  I also cut out some letters in ransom-letter style to spell out SUCCess.
After that, I printed onto the paper using a gel printing plate, acrylic paint, and various stencils.  I intentionally mixed the paint to be a dismal, dark purple.  I also used some tools to remove a bit of paint from the plate before printing, to create more complex patterns than I could with stencils.  The stencil allowed the "SUCCess" to show through.  On another portion of the paper, I printed with a scaly stencil, although I wish I used something that let more paint through.  On the plate, I added a line of gold paint, and by rolling perpendicularly with the brayer I could make the line repeat in parallel, which was reminiscent of digital image glitching.  It was a really interesting effect, but I didn't get to clearly show it.
When printing was finished, I added embellishment.  I drew on it with black pen and white pencil, to emphasize certain parts (such as the watch face) and add more.

(On a sidenote- I'm definitely vaporwave inspired, and I think it's interesting (and probably ironic) that I used traditional art mediums for it, rather than the archetypical photoshop work and technology motifs.)