Print making 1

I wanted to learn how make prints - especially of own work so i did all the print classes - 4 - at mary ward last year to find out how the different process work - screen printing, photographic screenprint (the only one you could use to print an existing artwork), etching, monoprinting, linocut,.  They're not great but i will definately do a lot more work.

an etching of john, wonky eyed,  scratched into metal then black ink added.

etching of hand of dead soldier's wife holding hanky - yeah i know - printed serveral times in diff colours

on the first day of class we had to draw each other using monoprint (ink on meta/glass plate, lay down paper on it, drraw on back of paper, then lift and see result.  i looked old but i love it.

3 different methods of etching ie 3 drawings of nun like figure

SCREEN PRINTING

and old drawing - the only good one i did in 2008 in that first class, done with ink, which is why i feel good about ink -i couldn't believe i had done this.  So,this is what i wanted to reproduce as a print.  First used a photoshop black and white special screen print setting to print out onto paper - very dotty.  Then painted screen with special photographic emulsion, brushed oil on the print of skull to make the paper see thru, put the pic on the screen then turned on the light for a few minutes and the image burned into the emulsion on the screen.  Washed of the screen and did lots of print onto fabrics, old pyjamas, tshirt and vests -as screen would be reused.

On another screen i had drawn this pic on butchers paper, cut out the it i wanted ink to show, stuck it on the screen and printed.  where the butchers paper is the ink doesn't get thru the sereen

this is the reverse done with the bit that i had cut out

i put this piece thru both screens

a variety of versions

 this one i did by making cutout of cap and jewellery and printing on top of skeelton print.  I put it on back of art overall i made out of workmens veralls which i undid the legs and resewed as full length overall - just in case i do oils i dont trust myself

These 3 prints of an etching i did show how getting the right amount of ink on the plate needs to be practiced.  It also shows how you can wipe ink of areas of the plate where you want hightlights, although this is another technique.  In this etching i should have scratched enough lines in the darker shaded areas to give depth, then could have wiped ink off plate to leave ink only in scratches.