Tuesday 30th Ocotober

The first thing that I done today was to make sure that the Lino cut was deep enough around the black lines. I thought that would help when I print onto the paper.

These are the photographs of my steps that I took:

These are the steps I took:

1. I decided I wanted to use red, I didn’t want to use black and white as I felt the design wouldn’t of been as effective as a bright colour such as red. First what I had t do was put the ink into a tray.
2. I had to roll the ink out across the tray, going in different directions to spread the ink out, but making sure that there isn’t a lot because with Lino printing, less is actually more. As it is being stamped, the more ink would make it it gooey and that wouldn’t make the stamp look good.
3. Using the same roller, and this was a repeated action, I had to roll the ink onto the Lino, a few times to make sure the design had a layer of ink so that when It went to printing onto paper, I was able to have the whole image being stamped properly.
4. The fourth picture is showing what the first Lino printing looked like, I really liked it, it looked so good. I didn’t even realise that the outside would be so prominent but it actually makes the stamp better I feel. Sometimes mistakes can actually help the design process.
5. Photographs 5, 6 and 7 were all different ways to finish the end paper. One was filled, one wasn’t filled around the ages and one was taken landscape. The landscape one actually looked better, and I preferred it landscape to portrait as well as the Lino printing was landscape instead of being portrait.

I have never done Lino printing before, and I really enjoyed it. It was a new experience for me and I have learnt a lot about how I can make sense different from what I started to do.