Dress Forty Five

As mentioned last week, (Dress 33) here is a familiar shape....(although it is reversed)

Using the new "Puffy Paint" method of printing, I made two original monotypes and two ghost images from a flexi plexi plate, using the same puffy paint illustration as my base.

You can see bubbles in the main part of the dress that resulted from over mixing the transparent medium.  When I pulled back the plate, the sticky ink pulled up as well and left tiny bubble marks.

This second one is not truly a monotype because I re-applied the red and grey ink (too much by the looks of the bleed!)... however, if you look closely, you can see the dramatic embossed lines from adding another plate during this pass through the press in an attempt to force as much ink off the plate during a ghost press.

I cleaned the plate and once again began by rolling a thin layer of brown ink over the plate.  Then I used only pure inks this time, adding a mottled red and black to the top and sleeves.  I love how the space around the dark lines remains white since the puffy paint prevents both the brayer and the paper from touching the plate.

 In this second pass, I added an extra plate again to maximise the pressure and get as dark a print as possible.  Notice how much more of the mottling is evident in the sleeve and how during a ghost image, even though the puffy paint ridges are just as prominent, the ink has now migrated close to those lines and there are no white "shadows".