Perhaps not the best sketch I’ve ever completed, but it illustrates my thinking adequately enough to move on to a finished design for my first positive/negative masked monoprint.
From this outline, I produced the following design. I took several photocopies of this so that I could produce a few different masks.
I’m quite happy with the final first design. I’ve left out the bow on this occasion as it’s so much longer than the violin and would require my scaling the design down in order to fit in the bow. I will add this into the mix as well as any other items such as gloves and/ or musical notes in a later version, I think.
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