Month: April 2021

I decided to develop the heart a bit further and experiment with some new ideas I had. I decided to use different colour inks such as blue and red also using black ink to outline the heart. While doing this monoprint I decided to do it in sections, so I did all the blue parts first and so on, I did add some black to my cyan blue as it was to bright however I think I added a bit too much black. While doing each section I decided to do a continuous line where my pencil doesn’t leave the page.

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After completing each section of colour for the monoprint I decided to photograph the acrylic sheet as it left the marks/drawing I had done which I always find interesting to look at. After taking the photographs of the individual sheets I then had an idea to try and overlay, edit and develop them a bit further so that they would fit together.

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Here are the results I got after lining the images all together.

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After looking at my first attempt of the heart I realised a few things had gone wrong such as adding to much black to the blue and red, so I decided to do it again but this time I did not add any black to the blue and red. I prefer this one to the first one I did as the colours are a lot brighter allowing them to stand out from the black I used to outline the heart.

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After printing on plain white cartridge paper I decided to experiment and use black paper instead, so here is a print I have done of a heart using red printing ink on black paper.

After printing I then decided to use the app Procreate to try and make the heart appear brighter and vibrant, to give it a more realistic eerie look. I always wanted to look like there was blood on the page almost making it look like the heart had bled out. So here are some of the developments I have done.

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Here is another print I have done, where I rolled the ink out onto the acrylic plastic and put a piece of paper down, I then started drawing on top of the paper, so the ink would transfer onto it.

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After drawing on top of the ink, I removed my piece of paper and it had left an outline of my drawing in the ink, so I photographed it as I liked the effect it gave where you could almost see through it.