Mono printing & Wax stencil paper

Today in our print room session Rachel showed us some more interesting techniques in the print room that I hadn't come across before. One was called mono printing which is where we mixed up some water dyestuff which was very similar to water colour & then we painted our designs directly onto the screen. It was nerve racking but I enjoyed the freedom of it & got a cool print out of its.  The one problem with mono print is you can only get one print out of each design as the dye comes out of the screen. There fore it’s not a easily repeatable process which is something I shall keep in mind for future references.

The wax stencil paper was also pretty cool, its like a print with in a print but instead of absorbing the dye it resists it & leaves a stencil of what ever shape you made. I thought it turned out really well I liked the effect. I think I will definitely use these two methods in future.

 This is my mono print, I don't think I left it to dry long enough as you can see some smudging in the patterns but it was a good way to learn & I won't do it again. But over all I think it works pretty well.

 These are my print with the stencil paper on & after I had removed it. In hindsight I think I would have left the stencil paper on my print as it think it makes it look more dynamic & the pink colour works well with the colour of the print.