People from the Singapore Tyler Print Institute came to our school for a printing workshop.
We started with the background, a single color print. I covered a plastic sheet with ink, then removed ink to create designs. I varied between the thinner, pointed tool (for thin lines) and the wider spatula (for thick lines). By removing short, wide areas in a circle, I made a pattern that looked like flowers. This is one of the things I'm most proud of in this piece.
I also used my fingers to remove ink, making the fingerprints along the bottom.
After that, we worked on printing an animal on top of it. I decided to use a sheep, because I thought it would be a little funny. When we cut out the stencil, we were left with a positive and a negative of the shape. I put the positive in the frame so that it would print as a negative, because I wanted to preserve the flower designs in the middle. I chose red ink, and luckily, it ended up not being completely opaque. It's still possible to see the other parts of the original monoprint underneath it.
To finish the piece, I added some final embellishments. Using a marker, I added an eye, a line for the ground, and small lines to give the impression of overlapping fluff around the outline of the body. Faintly, there are also diagonal lines in blue pencil. I think I could have done more in terms of embellishments, as my current ones aren't so obvious.
We started with the background, a single color print. I covered a plastic sheet with ink, then removed ink to create designs. I varied between the thinner, pointed tool (for thin lines) and the wider spatula (for thick lines). By removing short, wide areas in a circle, I made a pattern that looked like flowers. This is one of the things I'm most proud of in this piece.
I also used my fingers to remove ink, making the fingerprints along the bottom.
After that, we worked on printing an animal on top of it. I decided to use a sheep, because I thought it would be a little funny. When we cut out the stencil, we were left with a positive and a negative of the shape. I put the positive in the frame so that it would print as a negative, because I wanted to preserve the flower designs in the middle. I chose red ink, and luckily, it ended up not being completely opaque. It's still possible to see the other parts of the original monoprint underneath it.
To finish the piece, I added some final embellishments. Using a marker, I added an eye, a line for the ground, and small lines to give the impression of overlapping fluff around the outline of the body. Faintly, there are also diagonal lines in blue pencil. I think I could have done more in terms of embellishments, as my current ones aren't so obvious.
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