In these pictures I was messing around with different lighting and slightly different camera angles. I took these pictures of the inked up plates. I love the way the flash slightly changed the colors and made them look slightly metallic. 

Here is my plate which I have inked up in red, orange,and black for my leopard print. Bright blue was then added to represent the color of my handbag. 

I mixed transparent ink into the blue so that the blue would become more slightly transparent and my background print would come through. 

In these prints I chose to highlight more then one image. The leopard print shoes and the yellow cover on my iPOD. I love the bright, vibrant colors in these prints. 

Here i have experimented with using bright colors! I have decided to take an element from my original print and make a mono-print of it. In this case I have chosen to highlight the leopard print that is in the leopard print shoes. 

"Mini" Project

Yes, thats right...we were given a "mini" project to work on also! This time the project was on Clutter. Luckily for me I was able to link this project with my main one because though I hate to admit it there are times I have alot of clutter in the back of my car! So my prints are based on the clutter that was in my car on that day. 

Once again I experimented with color. This time the colors I used are darker. Tones of brown, sepia, and blue/black. I also layered colors on-top of each other with I feel gives my prints more depth. 

In the layout of the prints I have experimented with different compositions in the placing of my prints on the white paper.

In some of my prints I decided to scratch quite heavily into the plates. This caused the ink to appear much darker and heavier in my final prints. 

Colored prints using a combination of monoprint and drypoint.

Here is the start of my prints..I used a process called drypoint. Drypoint is a printing process where I scratched into the plate, inked the plate..and then removed the excess ink with a textured cloth called "scrim." Initally I wanted to keep my prints black and white but then I decided to experiment with color using similar colors to those of the sky in my photographs in my previous post. To add color to my prints   I first made a monoprint in which i inked up the plate, and using a cloth I wiped away any ink I did not want on the plate. Its as simple as that! 

Here is the black ink and the rubber i used to rub ink on the plate.

Textured cloth called "scrim." This is used to remove excess ink off the plate.