Art class at the Granary

I've had a lovely couple of days at art class.  I started carving a Lino panel, trying out the new resin Lino.  I was inspired by Aunt Joan's counted thread sampler and simply drew some of the stitch patterns, at different scales.  I discovered I was drawing in line patterns and decided to carry on with this, to see how far I could push it, rather than exploring texture.

I stuck to black and white printing ink, on black and white papers - tissue, tracing, newsprint, dressmaking layout pages and collage.  I experimented with two tone print where you rollout black and white inks at the same time side-by-side, to make a great area in the middle. I also did a little overprinting.  Then, once home and dried, I stitched into some of them.

Very pleased with the outcomes, but now I'd like to experiment with more colour.

Plain print

With blanket stitch on right hand side

Black on black

Black print on spotty tissue

Two tone print with stitch on dressmakers pattern layout page

Two layer print on tracing paper

Overprinted with white

Two tone print over graphite

Black and white print on black tissue

Selective white overprint

Selective white overprint and collage

White overprint on collaged paper

 Black print on collaged black tissue

White print with collaged words

Two tone print with stitch

With stitch on pattern layout paper

Two tone print and overprint on black tissue.