OUGD403 - Design Skills - Letterpress and Lino print workshop.

We went down to the Vernon Street building of Leeds College of Art to have a play at mono printing, lino printing and letterpress. I in particular have never done any of these so i was eager to try them all, sadly because of how many students there were and how long it took me to cut my lino, I only ended up trying lino printing and letterpress.

The first thing i tried was lino-printing. Firstly I layered my lino with chalk and then traced the 'a' from my previous brief onto it. The chalk was an idea i had to make the pencil more visible.

After tracing the onto my lino, I then used a selection of tools to carve out the surrounding edges and background and leave the letter behind, this took a really long time which later prevented me from trying out monoprinting.

After it was all cut out, I rolled the black ink onto my lino and then attached it to the press to print onto my paper. As you can see, I made a massive mistake at the beginning of this print method. I forgot to reverse it, so essentially, my print was reversed. If I ever have time to do this again, I will make sure i do it the right way. I wanted to show this in my hand in but it disappeared from both our studio and vernon street.

The next method of printing I experimented with was letter press. I was unaware/forgot we were going to be handing in and blogging about all of this and so I apologise for my use of language, I wasn't being very serious about it and I was just having a bit of fun with it.

I went into the type drawers and chose a selection of letterforms and bars to create my print and then applied ink to each individually and printed them.