Monoprints

Still exploring leaves and ways of depicting them. Each of these prints involved the use of Zest it - a non txic cleaning fluid, generally used for the cleaning of oil based printing inks. In this case I used it to remove certain areas of the ink on the printing plate that resulted in the skeleton leaf shapes below.

This second print involved not only the use of zest it but also pieces of thin paper (news print paper) to prevent the transferance of the ink from plate to canvas when put through the press.

each print 21cm x 29cm (A4) October 2011