contact printing 

The word contact printing was foreign to me, i had heard of lino printing and silk printing although i had neither done silk printing myself till a few weeks later . This task had an interesting process which i was keen to learn and practice.It took me 2 or 3 good trails till i thought reasonable (the worst criticiser is yourself , one thing i have learnt ) . This task was challenging in its own ways , using ink is always tricky ;it smudges , dries too fast leaving patches of different tones ( manly with black ink). One problem that i had myself and only learnt the hard was always us less! when doing this task i noticed that when using ink you have to be careful of not over flowing the paper with ink but ,at the same time not using the bear-minim , this meant going through papers on papers to find the perfect amount of ink . The technique we used was a strange one and which yet again w completely foreign to me . Using a plan piece of paper i placed onto the table which next to i had placed a white bored which upon it i smothered with ink . Once having everything put in the right place I then was ready to start the process of spreading the ink onto a plain piece of paper  , then placing another piece of paper on top of the now dark black paper and then  drawing with a sharp pencil. For me this was very unnerving; not having control of what the outcome could /would be and not being able to use a rubber (as in this case a rubber would have no use) and rub out mistakes as the pencil has already touched the ink and marked the piece of paper . Although this was a very new way of printing for me mind-puzzling i still enjoyed it , i wouldn't say it was relaxing but more frustrating, i still found it fascinating and in a way mind blowing . Its something i would like to do again in the future . 

                                                           

                                                       

attempt 1

attempt 2

attempt 3

attempt 4