Monoprints

In todays lesson, we learned about monoprinting.

Wikipedia says that Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images or lines that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking where there are a number of originals.

The materials and equipment that we used in todays lesson were:

• ink
• newspaper 
• roller 
• plastic board 
• paper 
• sticks

Before we started we went through a few healthy safety risks, these were:

• spills of water
• allergies
• clothing (making sure that an apron is worn)

My favourite piece of work that i created was a design of my name. To do this i used sticks to write my name as well as using different colour inks which were blue and black.

To create the prints you have to roll out a layer of thin ink onto a surface and then place paper over the top, i drew onto the back of the paper, i peeled off paper and drew different patterns into the ink using different tools to create different thicknesses of lines. A technique that i never used but is very good is to use your fingers to create a shading techniques.

I like doing Monoprints I like the way I using different colours; blue and black to make my design of my name.

Lynda Goldberg Nature Print