We've been doing drypoints, monoprints, and any mixture of the two we desire - two very nice methods of making prints with vaguely similar yet unique feels. Today has been a day-long woodblock project, but the results are presently drying so no pictures yet!
First of all, here's a select few pictures taking here in Limerick and also up in Dublin over the past week and weekend, a couple of which I've been using and others I plan to use:
Limerick:
Dublin:
The imagery of official signs, messages and bakgrounds combined with unofficial grafitti messages and tags is one I find very interesting and will probably use more in the drypoints/monoprints.
Here's a few drypoints I made a few days ago;
I'm quite happy with the contents of the first three images; these were my first three drypoint prints ever, so I think they came out fairly well, especially in the swirly dirtniness of the black and white ones. The green is possibly a bit too strong in the coloured one, but I think it and the yellow had the desired effect of moulding up the building and increasing the general grottiness.
Naturally the last image is of two incomplete prints. They are based upon the green garage door seen earlier in the post, with the background done in the monoprint medium using tape to make the lines before the green was printed. I'm gonna then use drypoint methods to make the writing and grafitti on the surface.
