Part 1: Project 4 - Textured and Combination Monoprints

Final Prints:

Left: Double layered positive mask with blended two colour background.

Right: Negative mask with kitchen paper pressed into the final inking for the leaves and white ink added and pressed with a paint tube lid and spaghetti to create a textured pot.

**Updated Photos:

I've updated the photos as my original ones were taken in low light and didn't show the prints at their best.

Updated Photos:

Updated Photos:

Left: Double layered positive mask with textured background made using kitchen paper, paint tube lid dipped into pink ink and spaghetti pressed onto the plate. 

Right: Ghost print picking up the remaining ink.

**Updated Photo:

For this one I tried painting onto the masked areas on the second print layer. 

It didn't really work very well.

I love how this one turned out, I used double masking and textures on the 

fruit and the background. The colours are my favourite together.

**Updated Photo:

Research on Squeak Carnwath please see Part 1 Research page.

Reflections:

I used Cartridge paper and Zerkall for this project and both came out fairly successfully. I really love the texture created using the texture techniques and the blending of colours by overlapping the masks and inks.
I wanted to create really bold prints using bright colours and a graffiti style textured effect on the third print. The washed out background of the first print with the vibrant overlapping colours looks really effective and I almost makes the plant show more leaves than it actually has. The texture on the pot in the second print came out really well and reflects the raised pattern on my real plant pot. I think the kitchen paper worked really well to add pattern and texture to the leaves as well.
The third print I wanted to see what would happen if I layered two positive masks on the plate at the same time and put more emphasis on the background, this turned out really well and I intentionally left the masked area white to have that contrast with the background. Finally I decided to do a ghost print since there seemed to be a lot of ink still on the plate. I like how this came out with the pops of pink and the faded background.
The fourth print didn't really turn out how I intended but it was good to try it out and see what it would come out like. I used a similar technique to the first couple of prints for the last one and I really love how it came out.
Overall this was an interesting project and taught me more about combining the different techniques to make a more detailed monoprint.