composition tests

Today I worked on various compositions that I can use for my final A3 print. I used a lot of methods to do this so I could also experiment with techniques and materials. The first one was a monoprint with emulsion over the top.

  The emulsion kind of ruined it in my opinion, so I took these and photocopied them in black and white to collage them. I really love work that uses this technique but I am not very good at it, though I would like to be, so practice makes perfect!

After I collaged I overlaid the two using bypass printing. I really like how these came out because the overlapping materials created interesting patterns, but the drawings were still visible underneath, without the ugly emulsion smeared all over it. Tried sewing into one of them also, but getting straight lines is impossible! How do fashion students do it?!

   With some more photocopies I also put ink on them, then cut them out to make more collages, overlaying them with patterns made by printing with found packaging. I think the one where there is 4 sat around a desk looks very ominous, like a very serious meeting, or a group of cannibals at a dinner party.. I really like the composition of the other one though, how they aren't on the same level but still opposite. This is probably the one I will use for my A3 lino