Oh, I've been so lax. Bad me. I've been working away at my OCA printmaking course, but just haven't been blogging about it.I'm currently working on the first section, which is on monoprints. I have to submit four final prints, and one should be a portrait.
I asked the mirror on the wall who the fairest of them all is, but apparantly Lucy Worsley wasn't available to sit for a portrait. So I decided to do a self-portrait.
1 - I propped a mirror up and sketched this. It looks nothing like me. I think part of the problems is my eyes and mouth are too small here.
2 - I then put that under a sheet of glass, and painted on it using printing inks. I looked terrifying - the nose areas is all weird and wrong.
3 - This is my final print - I used masks to print the areas of colour, and backdrawing to define the nose, chin, freckles and ears. I kept the whites of the eyes by positioning little masks on the inked surface. I first printed the green layer, then the pink face, then the hair and eyes, and finally the red lips.
4 - Then, I mucked around a bit. I rolled out the browny ink and did some backdrawing - this is the original print...
5 - And this is the negative - after I'd taken the first print, I just covered the inked plate and pulled another print.
6 - The one that looks most like me, really, is just this print I did of the 'brown' mask so you can just see my hair, eyes and eybrows.
So - overall, I'm please with my final print, but I wish my nose wasn't wonky - the print on the pink layer got slightly out of alignment.
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