This week is the 2nd week of free-style mark making!

This time, I brought along some concentrated watercolors and a tube of white gouache paint in hopes of getting an interesting range of grays. I also brought a small sachet of wool.

In the first half of the session, I tried lino-cutting – a process where a design is cut onto a linoleum surface.

I’ve learnt alot about the tools used for lino-cutting!

Lino-cutting was an extremely valuable lesson as I’d learnt quite abit about the cutting tools, and how I should be handling and cutting the linoleum sheets. If I wasn’t wrong, I think Sheryl or Valerie gave me some precious tips on how to cut them. Thank you so much guys! (;u;)

However, the prints that came from lino-cutting weren’t quite to my liking as they were very rigid and time-consuming, so I decided to go back rolling things on some uncut linoleum sheets quickly enough. Maybe one day (not today), I’ll be able to do a little more venturing into the world of lino-cutting!

Following that, I returned to working with gouache, but worked some watercolor and wool into what I’ve experimented with last week.

The great thing about loose wool is that they’re versatile and can be poked into bigger chunks if I ever need to dip and paint with them! (‘u’)

In this set of lines, I’d used the wool for texture, to apply ink and to remove ink!

I’m pretty happy with how some of these turned out! I think I’ll be able to use some of these for the final strips! (‘u’)

This was another educational session as I got to compare the viscosity of watercolor concentrates, gouache, Chinese ink and printmaking inks. Since I’ll most likely be picking out quite a few lines to use for the final set of emo lines, it’ll definitely help to be able to control some of the aspects so that I can recreate the lines or improve on them for the final set!