The method of mono-printing that was used in the mono-printing session, was rolling out a layer of water based ink onto a marble slab, the sheet of paper was then placed lightly over the top and the image was drawn on the side of paper-facing upwards. Noting that any pressure applied on the drawing side would be attracted and printed on the inked side of the paper. In a way that iron fillings suspended in paraffin would be drawn to a polarized magnet. Once the image was drawn out I then proceeded to rub over the paper surface with a clean paint roller, then peeled the paper away to reveal the imprinted image on the back of my paper.
Despite a water based ink being used in this process-mono-printing- is still a messy matter so aprons are highly recommended-and gloves if multiple formats of ink are used in the same print. Although in terms of time, mono-printing a simple, swift and speedy process, with it taking less than five minutes to produce a print. Easy sounding, no?
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