I liked what I had done so far with lino printing but felt that the acrylic paint I was using wasn't giving me a good enough quality print. I went out and bought some block printing ink with the hope that this would work better. After doing some more drawings of pigs in my sketchbook I settled on a couple of images to cut into the lino.
These are my first couple of prints, I was learning how to gage how much ink I needed to use and how much pressure needed to be applied at this stage but I got used to the process after a few tries.
I started printing onto some calico-like fabric to see whether the texture of the fabric would show through the print. I like how you can see the weave of the fabric in the print and although this is probably not the right ink to use on material, it would still be visible if scanned in and printed out digitally.
I had a few loose threads from rising he fabric and I laid them over my surface before printing to see what effect this would achieve. I like the looseness of the background in this print and it reminded me of the metaphors I had been working with previously, thinking of using tangled string to show the unravelling of a murder case and the complexity of it.
I tried to push this idea. This time I rolled my ink out onto the lino and used the end of a paintbrush to scrape away these angles lines. This is the outcome when the lino was printed on fabric.
I repeated the process with paper.
I think this experimentation has been really successful. Not only has the block printing ink improved the quality of my prints but I am now thinking beyond just the normal printing process and how I can alter this to create more interesting and unusual effects.
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