Because one part of my module is to create a printing portfolio and combine two techniques, I decided to use monoprinting and riso printing.
PART ONE: MONOPRINT
Monoprinting is a technique that is usually made either by transferring oil based paint on paper by ‘sketching’ on top of it (paper) or by erasing the paint with a cleaning medium and then its transfer onto paper.
My turn on this technique was to insert my own painting abilities and create printing paintings. The steps included using masking tape to mask out places that would not be painted.
The work requests continuous work, in this case creating of 18 paintings that have the same outline (picture source) and similar colour. The process has gone through risks and fails and now I finally found the right way to work quickly and efficiently.
Here is how few of the prints look at the moment. The paper is yellow-ish because it worked better with the colour palette.
Before pressing the paper onto the painting, it reminded me of cubism because of the sharper edges I created on the face. The type of cubism I am connecting to is the analytical one. Although my painting here doesn’t have the typical features of cubism, it still has something which made me think of it’s connection to it.
Here is the photograph and my painting next to it.
The connection could be slightly visible here in the work of Georges Braque. Maybe I should not say cubism, but the brushwork used in it.
