Today I got to do so much stuff concerning colour, and it's so annoying that none of it can be used here!!!!
But thats ok because I have learnt lots of new skills for printing with colour.
I have learnt that when trying to mix the ink used for Lino and Mono you really need to consider the colour and shade that you want. Start from the lightest colour and adding tiny parts of darker ones. Mixing the inks themselves takes a long time, and to mix them you have to use a specific technique. Instead of just getting a white and adding blue and mixing you have the put the inks on the table and use a spatular to scrape the colours into each other. It is hard to explain but the technicians in the print room are always around to help! I got too impatient with my colour mixing and rolled the colour out with the roller before it was consistent, meaning that some of my prints are slightly blotchy.
I also got the opportunity to screen print over many different colours of paper today to see how the ink transfers. I was using white paint, which i mixed at 50% with the binder, making it more opaque than normal but meaning I have to print fast so the screen doesn't dry out. Sarah said that white never goes over darker colours too well, but this made my prints quite interesting. The white was going over the paper colours and picking up tints of the colour, so when printing on black the white paint appeared a really light blue.
Towards the end of the day I started to layer different print processes onto of each other. Combining Lino with screen printing in many different layers, which was really successful. And I then tried to combine etching with both drypoint and mono, these failed quite amusingly! But this means that I can use the mono and drypoint backgrounds that I used for other images :)
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