Lino process

A5 peice of Lino, get a cutting board and a gouge to cut your design into it 

Once completed just put water base ink on with roller then get your paper put the Lino and paper under roller ready to produce your print. 

Although I did make the mistake of doing my words not back to front they should of been back to front so when the print was done it would of been the right way round to read..

Etching process ( pictures )

Vim cleaner

Putting hard ground on after it's been put on heat plate 

Put on hot plate to dry and heat up

Then into the acid tray 

Wash off hard ground 

Roll ink on ready to print 

Put under roller to produce your print 

Stretch paper before you print 

Etching process ( words )

To etch we had to Get an a5 peice of zink and file the edges 

Clean with vim

Put braso on

Clean again with vim, back it with sticky back paper

Put on on hot plate to dry and heat up

Once heated,apply hard ground with a roller not too thick. 

Making sure it was a nice golden brown colour not black

Etch our design on with an etching needle

Once we etched it went into the 10% acid tray whilst waiting rock the tray to prevent bubbles we had to keep checking our work to feel a step where the acid had eaten into the metal. ( 15 minutes approx ) 

Once we thought it was ready we took it out and put it in the water tray to rinse 

Then take out and put turp on a peice of cloth and clean it till all the ground was off

Wash with vim again then we were ready to make our etching prints 

Roll ink on or you can either use oil paint then put under roller with your stretched paper to produce the print ! 

Lino gone wrong!🙈

Before

I was happy with my Lino cut design and enjoyed the process I found it both easy and difficult as sometimes I went through and made holes because of cutting too deep but mostly I found it easy to achieve what I was looking for. 

When it was completed I was then ready to print I rolled the paint on and put it under the wrong roller wheel, which led it to end up like this. At least next time I know which one is the right roller and I defiantley won't be making the same mistake twice and I also know not to cut too deep so my next one won't have holes or be demolished! 

Screen printing samples complete

Screen printing finished designs

Screen printing 1

I started off drawing a design on an a5 peice of white paper, using only black pen. swapping and changing the pen size gives thicker and thinner lines to create different textures and patterns, also making sure i barely left any negative space. I was pleased with my design and couldn't wait to see the turn out..

After my design was complete and I was happy with it i then took the design to the photo copier where I got it copied onto an a4 peice of tracing paper, it was then ready to be put on a screen. 

Tour de France

Blek le rat artist research

I chose blek le rat because he is a French street artist who specialises in graffiti and stencil work. His artwork is all over the streets of France which I thought fitted in with Tour de France because the bikers will pass his work. Also I love his style and have enjoyed using him as inspiration in my own work. To produce his spray paint effect I used watercolours , bold black and white acrylic paint , charcoal and chalk which I think gives it the best spray paint effect seems as I couldn't use actual spray paint. 

Paper making

Start

Finish

TOUR DE FRANCE collograph

Collograph 

To make this we had to cut an A5 size peice of card out then using cardboard, card, paper, crinkled paper and string we then glued them on with pva glue in the pattern of our design. Mine being a bike frame I chose to apply in paper then bike parts in string and cardboard to give a different texture affect.. Then we had to cover in varnish and wait for it to dry. This is mine ready to be used to print .. 

TOUR DE FRANCE Lino

Lino