Printings

my first print was made using foam times which i engraved into to create a rose like pattern which i then rolled with paint and printed onto wallpapers. this was to tie in the floral prints found on many of the china cutlery and the fabrics found on board the titanic. however i found this technique to produce quite simple prints which lack in detail.

After creating these pieces i returned to the mono printing method. i decided to mono print my tea sup drawing using black ink to give the illusion of oils to tie in the idea of the oily dirty conditions the workers where working in. 

I then went onto again mono print using the black ink as I liked the oily effect it created. however, this time i used the image of the binoculars. When I had finished the initial print the ink came out quite blochey. Therefore I decided to use the same paint but using a paint brush I layered the paint on top create an oily thick texture to the image.

I went onto create another mono printing piece using a scaled down version of my drawing of the rusting chains. rather than printing onto plain paper, I used wallpapered as my background. this is a good method of tieing in the shipyard conditions to the opulance of the first class areas of the ship itself. I liked how the black oily ink created a gravel, dirty look to the chains against the textured wallpaper.