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Showing posts with label Monoprinting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monoprinting. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 February 2012
I did get to play a little with my acrylic blocks but have been struggling to get decent photos. Decided to blog them anyway, despite the fact that the variations in shade and colour are just not showing up – grrr!
No problems with this one because it’s just black and white.
I used Versafine for that one, then embossed it. Dunno why my ‘Smile’ stamp is a bit ‘iffy’. I have to watch because there are always strands of hair around (from my head) and I’d just washed my hair when I did this, so perhaps I missed one. The poppies were stamped on the block.
The following three were stamped with two shades of distress inks but instead of spraying with water, I used gold mica (homemade), which doesn’t show up very well.
This one was pigment inks, mainly pinks and reds, with a touch of brown, all embossed after stamping.
(I forgot to mention that I took some colour off in 2 of the corners with a swirl stamp and with a small bottle top before stamping it – doesn’t show up very clearly but it does a bit. Unfortunately, words are one thing you can’t stamp onto your block, unless you don’t mind them being mirror images and illegible!)
This one’s in similar shades, but uses distress inks and mica again.
I’ve done more but I’ll save them for another time. I did one on my trusty old large Hero Arts shadow stamp and I quite like that one. Takes me back to when we had the little Stamp Club in the shop. We did quite a lot of mono stamping then – probably around 5 or 6 years ago - and it was so much fun.
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Edited: INSTRUCTIONS
Edited: INSTRUCTIONS
I thought I’d posted instructions but I obviously didn’t – sorry. If you want to try this, just scribble over an acrylic block with felt tip pens or inks (water based) and spray with water or mica spray, then use the block to stamp with, giving it time to transfer. You can take colour off with some bubble wrap or other textured item before you stamp it but if you do, don’t spray it or you’ll lose the pattern. If you want to use Copics or Promarkers, spray with alcohol. You can use the whole block or just the edges to create a border – up to you.
If you use pigment inks, you can stamp the images over the inks onto the block before stamping it onto the card. With these, you can take off colour with an uninked stamp, to add pattern before stamping your main image and you can stamp over it in any colour to create the background. One of the good things about this is that you get a reverse (shadow) image, so you can use it to create a reflection. It works much better on a solid stamp, though., instead of a block, if you have one. Solid images also work better than fine lines, which don't show up quite so well.
Chalk inks also work really well. Haven’t done any samples but that’s what we used years ago, when they first appeared on the market.
It’s not my technique – it’s a standard printing technique which has been used for eons but it’s great for experimenting with. Just wish I had more time to play. Any more questions, please do ask.
For more information on monoprinting the printer’s and artist’s way, see here.
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The ice has almost melted and the sun is shining, so I may just venture out for a bit of fresh air. No snow here, though. Hope you’re all staying warm x
Thursday, 2 February 2012
This is the challenge I sent for KCUK this month – printing with acrylic blocks – otherwise known as mono printing. There are so many possibilities for this technique and I hope to play with them as soon as I’ve finished work for the week, but for now, here are a few simple samples.
For these I just used felt tip pens in two different colours, then spritzed them with water and printed onto white card.
I really like the patchy look I got with these.
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