I'd been looking forward to this section and as a wet weekend approached, went out and bought inks and bits and bobs to get started. After several hours I had very little to show for it, a few rather dismal blobs in horrid colours, not deserving of the term "monoprint". As I was clearing up, rather than waste ink I combined a couple of plates and like magic the following suddenly appeared.
I know they don't look much but they're a start!
These are my efforts at collagraphs
I got quite excited with how well the stitching came out, the little bits of cotton tails reminded me of IUCD strings, so I made a uterus for it to go in!
Then I got really over ambitious and thought a baby would look good.....
???twins.....maybe not!
I really like the blue ones! very organic, and underwater like. When you reprint the same one, and it fades as the ink is used up, different shapes become more dominant/less... I think this kind of thing works well in a small series... 3 together, fading out.
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