Drawing - Experimentation

Graphite, printing ink and oil pastels

'Spiral'

'Chequers'

Exploration of creating a design / image with graphite pencil. Creating tonal values within the shapes. Loading printing ink and rolling white onto a plate. Roll through the press together; Result: I love the ability to blend the graphite into the printing ink to create blurred and tonal greys, adding shadow and softness to lines. It’s a technique allowing you to ultimately draw with your fingers. I think it would be interesting to develop the drawings from an original drawing on the Ipad, build it further through this technique as it adds a richness that you could actually present as a final piece. Love the approach.

What didn’t work so well

Where as the iPad is more immediate and mobile, this approach does feel slightly more restrictive as you need immobile equipment, namely a printing press but I want to experiment and push this technique further next year.