Part 1:Project 3: Further multi layered Monoprints

I set out today with the following objectives, not all of which came to fruition.

Create multi-layered monoprints achieving diverse effects using textures, masks, and back drawing.

Complete blog post from yesterday by adding references.

Note todays successes as well as the “failures”.

Despite writing this list before starting the actual printing this morning, I blundered through a series of printmaking efforts with no real sense of what I was doing or why. Headless chicken mode has pretty much prevailed since starting Printmaking 1. The blame for this I had been placing squarely at the door of the fact that I had been awaiting the results of my first module (Drawing skills) and still did not know whether it was resolved and safely beyond the risk of necessitating resubmission.

However, having received my grade and been content with a mark of 60, it was difficult to switch off this hypervigilant part of my brain and really commit to Printmaking 1.

Excuses excuses.

The photograph above depicts my best efforts of this morning. The rest are either “also-rans” or in need of further layers.

Here they are as follows:

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I think the last three prints in green were a bit of a mistake. I failed to follow my own advice and to use colours that rub shoulders on the colour wheel rather than so-called “complementary” colours which are opposite.

I think perhaps the above can yet be rescued as outcomes with the addition of a third colour. I need to think carefully about which colour to use. In fact, I need a complete colour-strategy rethink.

I also need to revisit the first item on the list – “Create multi-layered monoprints achieving diverse effects using textures, masks, and back drawing.” – and complete some fun experiments.