At this point I was feeling very disheartened with print making, particularly lino, but knew I had done so much work with it that I could only persist and keep trying! I'd found before that hessian lino was more effective but hadn't worked it out quite as much as I hoped. I suspected that the amount of negative space was leading to all the messy bits that were printing but shouldn't be, as it is harder to get rid of these- so now I worked with more inked space designs.
And so I tested my theory with a small practice stamp of lino and it worked- this time! There were some uneven edges still and I suspected that this could be because of my old lino cutting tools so have ordered some more in the hopes it would make a cleaner and deeper cut!
The next issue is how I will add the yellow to the designs, as there isn't much of it if I was to use a whole plate with just the small bits of yellow left that would be likely to leave those marks again in all the cut out space. I had tried stamps before, but they moved in the press and I'm not entirely sure if I want to risk that or if I can get away with it in these designs.
So I decided to try using mono print
Pros:
- won't move around in the press (!!!!! the main pro)
- cheaper than stamps
- might not takes as long to make as stamps, but then again if a stencil needs to be made for each one then it will take a long time
Cons:
- quite fiddly, will be quite complicated for some of the designs
- if using a paper stencil it can only be used once as it will leak ink through to the image if reused
- when put through the press it leaves an indent on the paper, would have to be careful that it matches to the edge of the design or else it would look odd
At this point I'm not sure which method would be more suitable so will look to asking for some help from people with experience! In the meantime I will cut the black lino plates as I know they will be needed for sure and will probably take the most amount of time so there's no point waiting around for it!
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