Final Major Project - Aztec lino prints and reduction prints

Before i could start making my final Aztec piece i had to make the pastel pink, purple and blue as i did not already have them and then i had to test them all out individually to make sure they were they right colour.

First of all i made the pastel pink using a small amount of red and a lot of white.

I was really pleased with the colour it turned out the exact way i wanted it to.

This print could have done with more ink and slightly more pressure applied to it.

This is the pastel blue which is made from a very small amount of dark blue and a lot of white.

i am also very pleased with this colour as it came out exactly how i wanted it to.

This print had a good amount of ink rolled onto it and i think a good amount of pressure was applied because the print is not to patchy.

This is the pastel purple that i made using Red, blue and a huge amount of white.

I am happy with this colour but it is not the exact colour that i wanted it to be, i would of liked it slightly lighter but no matter how much white i added the colour did not seem to get any lighter.

Here I have printed on to the thin sheets of paper you get when you buy acetate to protect it.

The paper really absorbed the ink really well, it feels really smooth but the only problem is you can hardly see the print properly because of the type of paper that it is.

Here i have printed onto tracing paper, this worked very well, much better then the paper i had just previously used, on this particular print there was a perfect amount of ink and pressure applied to the lino, you can tell this because the print is very clean and clear.

I then went onto printing onto different types of wallpaper, to see weather you would be able to see my deign if the wallpaper already had a design raised on it.

On this type of wallpaper you can very faintly see my design but it really doesn't work well at all.

i think this would have worked better if the wallpaper was slightly flatter. 

Once again on this type of paper you can only faintly see some of my design but yet again it really doesn't work well, even thou it doesn't work well I do like this print.

Printing on these types of wallpaper was very impractical because the ink would have taken several days maybe even weeks to dry, which i just didn't have enough time to do.

This is what my Lino Looked like with just the first cut.

Once i had printed all the prints i needed from the first cut into the lino I then had to work out which sections i would cut out to make the first reduction on the prints.

I thought the easiest way for me to do this would be to photocopy my design and then colour in the sections that i need to stay the first colour of the print then i knew i needed to cut them sections out of the lino.

This is what i did to help my work out which piece of the lino i needed to cut out, everything that is coloured in pink needs to stay pink on the original print so that has to the sections that i cut out of the lino next.

This is what the lino cut out after i had cut into it for the second time.

Here is my first experiment using the two colours on one print, in the actually colours that i want to use, i think this print would have worked much better if the second layer of ink did not have so much ink rolled on to it and it is also very slightly off in position.

Here are two other colour experiment that i have done using two different colour inks on the same print.

I then repeated this process again but coloured the sections that i need to be cut out in blue for they would be staying blue on the print, and the sections left would then be printed in purple.

This is what the third and final cut into the lino looked like, everything remaining on this lino would then be printed in the last colour.

This is what my final will look roughly like, i think this would have been a successful print if i hadn't of printed the last colour on the wrong way round, for i think they was a good amount of ink and the right amount of pressure was applied to the lino.

Here are two more colour experiments that i have done using three different colour inks.

I think that they both work very well and i really like them both.