Yesterday’s session was taking relief prints from cereal packet card. I used a scalpel, scissors and a ballpoint pen to draw and peel away a design of Antonia based on an ink sketch you will recognise from my I Wanna Be Handsome blog post.
I was really interested in experimenting. I printed a few regularly, but then tried writing on manually to create a unique monoprint. I became interested in the repeat prints: whenever I tried something, the ghost of the experiment showed up on later prints. You can see this in the negative print of the JOKER print, and the ghost of a club outlined after I took the print with the club stencil.
I particularly like the playing cards I printed on to. I like that the size of a playing card determines the crop, and since I didn’t create the design with that size in mind, the crops are quite fun and organic. The composition I think is particularly fun with the six of diamonds, where you can see the red coming out behind the dark print.
I would like to throw these through Procreate and play with colours and stencils, but right now the studio work is taking priority. Hopefully next Wednesday I can use the week off to try more digital manipulation and take these images further, as well as making some research notes on cool academics Phil has mentioned in his lectures.
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 