During these two lessons we first of all starting on doing mono-printing which consisted of using 2 separate rollers, one clean, one dirty and a laminated piece of paper (acting as a glass screen). We rolled the printing ink on to the laminated paper or painted on to create a picture, we then pressed paper on and rolled the clean roller on so that it printed the picture - this was additive.
As well as this we also did subtractive printing which meant you completely roll the laminated paper then using some sort of object whether it be a cotton bud, a stick, a wet paper towel or another tool of some kind, to take away some areas of in in order to create a picture or just to practice mark making - I found this much more successful than additive printing.
In the second lesson of printing we did poly-printing which consisted of using a small cut out of polystyrene and like before 2 rollers, one clean, one dirty. what was different with this was we actually engraved the polystyrene then rolled it with ink and printed it on to paper and it left white areas where the marks had been made in the template. I much preferred this activity because I feel like it was much more successful as well as the fact that it was much easier to create figurative art.
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