MONOPRINT INDUCTION

Ghostly images and shapes! I especially love the noisy textures, it reminds me of film grain and makes my prints look old/eerie. Definitely works for Poe. I think Screen print/half tones will look too clean/modern, whilst monoprint is more natural.

I've done monoprint and monotype before and I've started having a go at home, but I am still trying to prove to the Jaybrain that it is fun and that I am capable of being a printmaker, so to stop putting it off/start getting excited about prints.

Had a bit of a go with monotype (drawing onto a plate, though I only finished one, seen on the 5th page of the Issuu presentation). Didn't enjoy this as much as monoprint. Don't think my lines are strong enough (too quick, sketchy and weak), I'm better with shape in this respect so preferred making stencils.
The monotype just looks boring and doesn't have the expanse of printed surface like the monoprints do, it just looks like a bad drawing with a fuzzy line? Maybe it would look better combined with the monoprint, e.g. monotpying over the top of an already printed texture to add details.

I wasn't thinking of the prints as images so I didn't pay much attention to the composition. My prints don't make much sense on their own, they're not finished pages and I didn't put much thought into how I was laying the tombstone stencils onto the plate for printing, I wasn't arranging them in any way as though it was a scene, rather placing them all down with enough space to chop them out when I want to re-use them, planning on using them as textures for collaging with later.

The idea of monoprint is that is is all an experiment, but I am very wary of following the rules and 

also feel like I'm being watched/can't truly let myself get into the flow of making and playing. I felt restricted because of the environment.

I DEFINITELY WORK BETTER AT HOME IN MY OWN SPACE.

I felt a bit panicky at one point after cutting my finger on a knife and then feeling like I'd done something wrong/was being looked at/just wanted to get out of the building/general anxiety doom. As soon as I thought the print technicians/peers had had enough of me/thought I was stupid/were angry because I was doing things wrong, the worry lever hoisted me down into the pit of despair. So I took a stroll, got some water and came back. Got on with it. Not a fun time but I did it and got through it. I made some things, did the session and came out in one (shaking, scratching, almost-crying-but-not-crying) piece.

Mucky fingerprints over everything. Need to be more careful.

Keep them clean and safe!

Tried to keep everything I made though, even the scraps of stencil with the print residue.