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First of all, I scanned in the first few monoprints I did. I wasn’t very sure what to do with monoprint at first as I was quite lost. Therefore I created prints with certain objects such as a scenery as below. They were very much alike without obvious textures.MDS00012 MDS00013 MDS00010 The third image here turned out quite interesting  with its feeling of movement and speed,starting from which I got to understand what monoprints may be used to create. However, the many following prints I did turned out very dark as too much ink were applied.

Besides the not so successful mono prints, I  tried out other techniques on my own.

More stuffs I did on my hard copy journal as well as paper strips

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It was really fun trying many ways of creating images rather than drawing all of them with only pen. I basically took what I saw in front of me and combined them in.

Then I started to look at the emotions given in the hand-out. Looking at the word ‘Bizarre’, the first thing I thought of was those ancient weird looking cave drawings. The shape of a emotionless eye, dark and rough stroke combined with  random scribbles were what made the stripe below.

I tried out fumage a few times before I applied this technique into the line. My finger accidentally touched on the line and the colors were erased so I decided to just went with it and drew something using charcoal. It turned out quite nice especially the colors went from light to dark from the left to right along with the flow of the ‘river’ .

For ‘Lyrical’, I was trying out with my protractor and the idea just hit me. I had a certain ‘rule’ when I was drawing it. For example, the straight lines were at different angles if they were adjacent.

I also started to use Chinese Calligraphy  ink and brush. With different amounts of water, the effected turned out very differently.

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As I was feeling more confident, I continued to try more things out: stencil cuts, charcoal, water and tape, contrast between wet and dry paint etc. I also tried splash the ink freely on the paper as well as let it dripped down on its own and wiped it with tissue.

 

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Top left was the pattern I cut out and tried printing with different inks.

Drew solid line with ink

Drew with ink and water using brush on double-sided tape and then covered it with single-side tape

Drew dark parts with tapes on the line, remove the tape and filled in blank with dry brush and then added in thin white lines

Charcoal on glue

Gravity, water& ink  wiped textures by tissue paper

etc.

 

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I liked the combination of many different materials as well as the contrast between dark black, light black and white.

A few lines created with repeated line also seem interesting to me. In fact, I did them when I was listening at a cca meeting. It was really relaxing and required no deep thinking but turning out good.

 

 

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The top one was the result of the combination of both free water flow and decalcomania

the left one below had a texture that kind of reminded me of the moon surface

These were the lines I was most satisfied with at that moment so I decided I should start on making lines on actual stripes with the correct scale.

 

 

Most of the lines below were used in the final lines so I will explain more in another post!

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Hope you enjoy them.

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These are some of the mono prints I did, trying to create some effects in my mind.

Firstly I covered the whole board with ink and placed a paper on top of it lightly. And then I slowly used a pen to draw the shape I came up with previously. In order to maintain the same shape, I cut out a piece of plastic sheet with the patterns cut through so that I can trace them accordingly. At the same time, I also to see how it will turn out from different arrangements: same spacing, decreasing spacing to look like speeding up , rotation

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Below is what it turned out to be after the first print. The paper was placed on the ink for too long or maybe there was too much ink. The patterns printed was not obvious.

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Second print

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This was just drawing the shapes without any reference. It was done on another previously printed drawing.

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Following was the second print from the above mono print. The lines looked a bit glowing with the contrast of the background. I also created some black circles by pressing a tape roll when printing.

 

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Second print showed more texture and details

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