Print week began with screen printing, using the photo emulsion technique. My work lends itself well to printing as the imagery is quite blocky so easy to recreate onto the screen. I decided to use my initial drawings to transfer as the were delicate so I thought it would look good combining it with other mediums. It took quite a few attempts to print the drawings the right way so I have lots of excess starting points to work with.

I decide to thicken the lines a little with pen as I was worries it would pick up well enough. 

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The first attempt didn’t work out how I expected, the lines aren’t strong enough and I didn’t mask off the edges, hence the mark on the right. After discussing with the lecturer I started to see how actually the disappearing lines could be a positive thing when combining it with other mediums or strengthened in other ways. We also talked about how the accidental mark could add to the piece compositionally. lots to think about and developments to be made.

Feelings disheartened by my failed? Attempts I used the time to prepare surfaces instead.

The first one accidentally produced some parasite like shapes which I intend to work into later. In all of these prints there are slight imperfections which I think are quite strong and with support other mediums well.

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I moved onto Lino printing, I picked the eels coming out of water as the first one to cut into Lino.

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I felt the first print was to illustrative and lacked depth or even any resemblance to eels in water. I decided to break them up by folding and scrunching the paper I printed them on to. I feel this look fits the theme well as the broken pieces reminds me of piecing together bits of information like a jigsaw. i moved on to the imagery from my original drawings.

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Again i wasn’t fond of the blockiness of the print and wanted to break it up so decided to paint on the ink. This outcome had no mystery to it so i moved on to mono-printing.

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i much preferred the look of monoprint, its a lot more subtle and leaves more to be discovered. the red ink looked creepy and speckled which holds connotations of fear and the unknown. i also noticed in the picture above that there was a slight print of what i had previously scratched into the ink plate, this gave me the idea to use the lino cut to pick up another layer.

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This produced the feeling i was going for, the monoprint breaks up the lino print, forcing your mind to piece the rest together. i could perhaps create a series of these slightly changing to create a squirming, pulsating movement.