ELECTIVE- PRINTMAKING. A to Z- A Visual Investigation.

MONOPRINT INDUCTION:

Mon 4th Oct:

Today we had our first Printmaking elective.  We were told to create some letterform stencils that would work with monoprint.  From this we were then instructed how to roll the ink onto the table tops using the rollers above, and then roll it onto our plastic sheets, which would then get sent through the printing press to create the prints below.

Above are my prints from the session (click on the right image to see a more detailed version).  Below is my plastic sheet from the same session.  By going through the printing press the stencils forced the ink out to create the type once again on this sheet.  I thought it looked interesting so i decided to keep it.

LETTERPRESS INDUCTION:

Mon 11th Oct:

For this induction we were asked to come up with a few lines of text that we could work with for the letterpress induction.  I used a quote from Henry David Thoreau- 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see'.  I thought it was relevant and just generally interesting.

Above is the quote i was using.  This image illustrates the piecing together of the individual letters with the appropriate spacing between them.  Once complete i needed to check to see if it was wobbling at all and sort it out by inserting different sizes of leading inbetween the end pieces of metal.  If the letters were wobbling then this would have caused an uneven, bad quality print.

Below is the type ready for print, compressed against itself to, again, make sure it doesn't move at all.

Below is the Letterpress that we printed from.