Printing

I produced some mono-prints in black and coloured ink using my own handwriting, a stencil and rubber stamps. These prints describe the beetle display using text, which I found was something different compared to a painting or drawing for example. I found it quite difficult at times when writing by hand because of the fact I had to write backwards. It was also quite time-consuming because I couldn't reproduce the same print over and over like I could of done if I had printed in the form of an etching for example. But, on the other hand, the mono-printing and stamp printing was instant. 

Over-printed Monoprint using letter stamps in coloured ink.

Print using letter stamps in black ink.

Monoprint using stencil in black ink.

Monoprint using my handwriting ink coloured ink.

I produced some screen-prints of a beetle photograph in coloured ink on various coloured and textured paper and canvas. I thought in total there were about 10 successful prints that I could either mount or frame or continue to use further to enhance the prints. Although I used a range of textures to print on, I thought the clearest prints worked on paper. 

New Beetle Photographs

I took some new images of the beetles from the Blackburn Museum because the original photo's I took weren't clear enough to use for screen-printing.  I still found it difficult to take the photo's because of the reflection of the glass, but because I used a better camera, the images were a lot clearer and crisp.

I will now select an photograph to use, and screen-print the image this week.

Overview of the beetles cabinet to recognize the range and quantity of beetles there are

Over- Painted Photographs

Photograph of elephants, distorted using sandpaper.

Photograph from magazine- acrylic paint and then scratched into.



Photograph from magazine- acrylic paint and markers.

Photographs from magazines-acrylic paint and scratched into.

Close-up of 'Pearl Jam' lyrics. Used photograph from magazine for background.

Photograph from magazine-black and white acrylic paint.

Over-painted collage using photographs and text from magazines and painted assitate.

Overpainted photograph from magazine-acrylic paint.

Photograph from magazine using acrylic paint.