13th and 14th May 2015 - ADDING COLOUR

I wanted to brighten things up a bit and introduce some colour into things!
Serena suggested experimenting with monoprints using transparent and opaque inks, creating a newsprint stencil to localise the ink and rolling the ink onto a photolitho plate then running it through the etching press. 
I monoprinted onto 3 of the previous litho prints using transparent inks first.
I added a pale grey sky, yellow and pale green/grey walls and pale blue on the left hand side of the print.
The effect was quite subtle like a diluted watercolour wash..

TRANSLUCENT INK

Paper stuck newsprint to print when removed so Serena suggested adding Vaseline to ink to reduce tack - next time!
Then decided to try opaque inks in foreground - buff pink grey used - though in fact it was a mixture of the last ink just used (translucent blue) - with opaque white /red /burnt umber
I ran it through press on dry paper (should have been wet!) -gaps produced around trees where ink had not flowed and also the ink was pretty patchy but quite nice effects produced on top of black ink - (made it a duller grey colour)

                                                         DRY PAPER - OPAQUE INK



Then tried inking with wet paper - covered more completely and to the edge of trees although I also cut a more accurate stencil which may have helped !

                                                    
                                                      WET PAPER - OPAQUE INK


Serena showed me the effects of rolling opaque and translucent inks on top of other colours
Different covering effects produced using opaque and translucent inks. Translucent more subtle (like a watercolour wash) achieved by the underlying luminosity of the white paper - the opaque ink was flatter and masked the whiteness of the paper.I wondered what effect different papers would have with the translucent ink - (area of future exploration?!) -Lambeth white paper used - very white and bright!
Then washed out stone and re inked using a  dark grey litho ink with small roller - ink came out much darker than I thought it would ? Some residual ink left from previous prints?
Added 50% extender on advice of serena but still  printing a bit dark
Next week ? Practice different colours on transfer stone using translucent and opaque inks
Print up lots of copies of landscape stone using different inks transparent and opaque - greys / browns ? Try and clean up edges a bit?!!