My line is emo: Monoprints

To kickstart our project, we were told to try out monoprints. Monoprinting is pressing an inked plate onto a variety of inks, tools, and items to create different types of prints. The beauty of monoprint is that one can achieve a huge variety of prints by experimenting with different methods, and that no print will ever look similar.

Here is a video example of how monoprints are done!

 

These are a few samples of my work:

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Digital version of one of my monoprint

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Masking tape

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Clingwrap

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Masking tape

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Largest paper – Fishing line Black piece of paper – Scratching with penknife Paper at bottom right – Baby’s breath flowers

Artpiece done by CY Twombly

I realised that the black piece of paper looks very similar to CY Twombly’s artpiece

 

 

 

 

 

 

My line is emo: Mark making tools

To have even more prints, made some mark marking tools that I found from home.

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Left to right: Rolled up tissue paper, ear buds, a row of toothpicks, baby’s breath, plastic flowers, a plastic rose

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Prints are from rolled up tissue paper

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Baby’s breath and ink

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Above – toothpicks, bottom – plastic flowers

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Ear buds and plastic rose combined

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Tried to play around with different patterns

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Some random prints I made in the spur of the moment

Then I felt that the prints were not satisfactory, so I decided to play with my favourite – watercolours!