Lino Development

LINO DEVELOPMENT 

Process; Given the work I'd been producing I felt I best try out some larger scale prints to see whether I wanted to print my finals with lino or screen print. I scanned in one of my sketches and rearranged it on photoshop to fit a square format (for larger scale) and then traced that onto some polymer lino (for quicker cutting than hessian) and printed it. 

Technical issues; My first print came out a little warped, this was due to me using the roll press rather than the flat press, something I noticed straight away and quickly rectified! After this all the prints came out rather well, I found that by checking the prints every time I could see if there were areas I needed to roll more ink onto or if there were any parts I was missing, for the most part though they came out pretty well! The only other thing I found was that towards the end some of the prints were becoming a little blurry, but this was probably down to mixing coloured inks onto the lino without washing in between. 

Things to consider // learnt; I hadn't thought about using a gradient or mixture of two colours before this print experiment; it would be a way of fulfilling the brief criteria without needing stamps or a lino reduction. If I were to use lino for my finals I would have to invest in some higher end lino cutters and hessian backed lino to get the amount of detail and finish I'd want from them, rather than using cheaper cutters and polymer lino.