We tried printing this week. Me and my Print and Photo-class were supposed to take a selfie, draw a moustache on ourself and make it black and white. This is the one I chose, unedited and edited.
After we took the picture, put a glassplate over it, and painted on it with black ink. It looked like this.
After that, we put a paper over the ink and pressed it. And of course, the prints are inverted because that's how the printing method works.
Here is my first print. The ink is poor, because I used too much time on the painting part so the ink had almost dried.
On my third print, I wanted more colours, so I painted the hair red instead of black. Again, I used too much time. The face isn't as bad as in the first print, but the hair vas very faded.
Fourth print. Of course I wanted the colours to be much clearer, so I tried soaking the paper before printing. This helps the paper to absorb more colour. I'm satisfied with this print because it got a bit shadowy, which creates a mystical effect.
On the last print I had time to make, I decided to have white ink on black paper. It turned out very blurry, because the white ink was very thick in common to the black, and I soaked the paper to get more colour. The combination made the print a bit spooky.
My favourite is the third one, because the face turned out well (and I care a lot about how I look). I really liked this project because I like painting and I want to get better at it.
