During the group tutorial, I saw that Alice had used monoprinting to create some of her background. It was effective in her piece, but it was perfect in terms of creating a dirty, mouldy atmosphere. Considering that some of my feedback was to find a way to make the mould more sinister, and to see if I could make it “creep”, today’s experiment was monoprinting.
I worked over the same piece of paper and then registered it underneath the tripod each new layer I created. I worked with dark green and then black towards the end, and the textures layer up to create a claustrophobic, dirty, full-on piece.
Jamie has been around for a few days, and did me the favour of taking a couple of pictures of me at work.
I wrote up six emails, mimicking the pointless back-and-forthing with an apathetic Landlord via an apathetic Lettings Agency. I then took screen grabs of these and overlaid them on Linear Burn so that the background became transparent. (Darken worked, but Linear Burn had a better opacity.) I learned how to crop images, and copy-pasted the shots with a crossfade and cropped everything but “Kind Regards”.
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 