29 - Print is collaborative today

 Unfortunately Sue who was due to introduce us to Print was unavailable on Thursday but Fortunately we had the excellent Gareth to bring the world of print to us.


Water soluble colours are rolled out Red, Yellow Magenta and Black
We work from the lightest (Yellow) 


Gareth outlined the unit and showed the facilities again we were going to be working with Utopia and Dystopia theme first exercises were with Monoprint (not repeatable)  

  

The cameras we can see

The Observation Tower



















New Colours


After Lunch we used one of the printing presses in a collaborative manner using some bright pastel colours which was (for me) quite a pleasure, some surprising results and working with ghost prints and various resist techniques - this exercise certainly revealed the delights of chance.




  
All involved in this one

Four inked panels with objects


Paper and Newsprint prior to 'press'


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