Workshops!

Point, Line & Plane: Mono-printing led by Rachel Ortas

Your will explore and experiment with different mark making techniques using

mono-printing, which is a fast and effective way to achieve strong, graphic results.

Bring images of London that you like (news paper or magazine).


It was fun and I like the outcome. It's fast and easy to produce good looking pictures and illustration, with futher possible scanning and editing digitally.
Everything was done in almost 2 hours, so, now you can see :)

P.S. - Surprisingly low quality of the photos :(

P.P.S - Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images or lines that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking, where there are multiple originals. There are many techniques of monoprinting. Examples of standard printmaking techniques which can be used to make monoprints include lithography, woodcut, and etching.

That's the beggining - everything is clean, newspapers covering the tables.. But the first paint is on the plate!

That's what was on the plate after I did the first monoprint.

First monoprint on the session, when you are keeping it in your hands looks better :D

Negative of the first monoprint

It doesn't want to return, so.. Anyway the image is bad quality :(

One more picture of the plate after printing both negative and positive

I picked up very bad pixelated image of the guardian and decided to make a line pattern on his clothes

There is the result :D I switched the plate with someone who was doing an image of the bus and you can also recognize it's contour on the background

Negative man

Together

Experimentation is FUN!)

Also I chose an image of the random footballer carrying a kid with the football ball on his hands. Also, I was using my previous, 'guardian', plate and you can see parts of his clothes pattern overlayed with the kid's hair, for example.

Woooork in proooogress!

Last one and most favorite. It's plate

And it's.. Monoprinted!)

I really like the effect of dissapearing while I was cleaning the plate

Cleaned and ready to be used!

That's how it was. 
And now my Timeline is waiting for me.
Take care.

Playing with colors in Photoshop