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Step 1: Sketch Design on a piece of Paper (No draft sketch on paper as I was absent)
Step 1: Sketch and Design
Design the leaf with pencil before tracing it with black marker. Shade in the black and white parts to know which parts to cut. (Print Black: Don't Cut; Print White: Cut)
Step 2: Cutting
Cut the areas you want to be printed white and ensure a fair balance of white and black. Use V shaped tip to cut outlines and U shaped tip to cut large areas.
Step 3: Printing
My print was not perfect as some of the lines are not evident enough as the ink went inside. There are areas where I did not ink over as well. I should have cut the outlines deeper and made sure that the ink was evenly distributed across the artwork
Linoprint Self-Portrait
1) Pre-cut
Step 1:
Print out a photo of yourself and trace the features. Shade in the parts I wanted to be black and leave the white areas.
Step 2:
Invert the photo by tracing it with a ball -point pen. Once I got the inverted photo of my self portrait, I used a permanent marker to outline my features and shaded in the shadow and black areas with a 6B pencil.
Step 3: Colour scheme
I coloured my face and the background. The colour of the background should be a darker tone compared to the colour of my face. I chose pink (In the end orange as the queue for pink ink was too long) for my face and dark green for my background.
Step 4:
Place a piece of baking paper between the lino and the inverted picture and trace it with a ball point pen. Once I have gotten the rough outline of my face and features, I used a marker to trace and fill up the black parts.
2) Cut White, Print Pink
Step 1:
Cut the parts I want to be left as white (Forgot to take completed picture) such as teeth, eyes etc.
Step 2:
Ink pink over my face (Areas I want as pink) and use a cloth to wipe off the access paint
(Don't have picture)
My features did not show very well and hence I used an alternative method
Step 2 (Alternative):
Using the backing of the lino (The blue side), ink the whole thing pink and print it. I replaced pink with orange (queue was too long) and inked 4 copies (Forgot take photo as well)
There will be some tiny little white spots, hence, I use a paint brush to dot in orange into the small white spaces
3) Cut pink, Print Green
Step 1:
Cut the parts that I wanted as pink (Orange), which is the face and neck areas)
(No fully completed photo)
Step 3:
Once ensuring that the test print is fine, print the green background on the orange background I printed before. When inking, use a cloth to wipe the ink on the face off because these areas would be inked blacked eventually and that inking it green beforehand would make the black ink later harder to be inked on the paper
Below are my Prints:
Step 2:
Ink the red side of the lino green and print on a blank paper first as test print to ensure the print turns out fine.
4) Cut green, Print Black
Cut the green areas (Background), leaving the black areas left on the lino
Step 2: Test Print
Ink black over the lino on a clean sheet of paper as test print to ensure that the black print will turn out fine
My Test Prints:
Print 3:
It was relatively better compared to the other 2 test prints as I added more water on the black paint to make it less dry
Print 2:
I cut the top right corner deeper than before. Despite that, there were too many white spots, probably caused by the dry black ink which made the it to hard for the black paint to be inked over the paper
Print 1:
The print was decent despite having multiple white spots. However, the top right corner has black ink as well because I did not cut that area deep enough.
Step 3: Print Black
Print 1:
This print was horrible as a lot of black ink did not manage to be inked onto the paper, especially the hair part as there was too many layers of ink on the paper already as I did not wipe the hair when I printed green. Hence, a lot of black ink did not stick well
Print 2:
I added more water to the ink to make it easier for the black ink to stick to the layers of paint. It came out way better compared to the first print and that the ink was more consistent as well. However, there were still spaces where the black ink did not manage to stick onto despite me repritning on the same piece of paper multiple times.
Print 3: (With Ms Ng Help)
This time round, I added much more water compared to the previous print to ensure the ink will stay. With the advice, help and surpervision of Ms Ng, the print turned out much nicer than the other 2 prints. The ink was more consistent, and that the black ink was inked well onto the hair part. It may not be perfect but it was decent and was the best print I had out of the 4
Print 4:
As I had one more piece of paper, I decided to print it one last time hoping it could turn out even better than the previous one. However, the ink did not stick onto the hair part well again.
the whole process of this linoprint project was an onerous yet thrilling one. I learnt many things and gained deeper insights as to what is linoprint and how we can carry it out. If I could correct one mistake, that would be to wipe off the paint on the hair area so that the black ink could be better inked onto the paper.
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