I hadn't done monoprinting since last year and not really done lino printing properly, so I was quite excited for the workshop. I also love printing, so I knew that I would enjoy it.
MONOPRINT
I thought that mono-printing was okay, I don't really like how you just never know how the print is going to turn out. I'm also not a massive fan of abstract artwork, I like producing work that shows a high level of craftsmanship. Although not saying that monoprint is a cop out and that it's easy, I just prefer work that you can tell someone spent hours over.
But I liked the experimentation and being able to create loads of textures and images fairly quickly. I can use these in maybe my animation or some aspect of my work. They worked really nicely as backgrounds for my lino prints which I realised shortly after..
LINOPRINT
I really liked doing lino printing, as cutting the image into the lino reminds me of paper cutting which I really like. As I said before, I enjoy doing processes that take a lot of time over doing, which I think is why I also have fun with this. Although, I still think that with the design that I'm looking at, screen printing would be more suitable. But we'll see after the screen printing workshop to see how successful it will be.
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