Personal Investigation work
This is a series of lino prints I made continuing with work similar to German Expressionism. I experimented with different colours so they're more interesting and it creates more variety. I used darker shades of colours to stick to my theme of emotions during lockdown as brighter shades wouldn't carry the same tone. After printing only on white paper I needed to make my backings more interesting, as while the work doesn't look bad its a bit plain. First I used tissue paper against a sheet of paper. I thought it'd be fitting to create darker tones for the tissue paper, so I put some black tissue paper behind to create this. To keep to expressing emotions, I decided to rip the paper as I felt it expresses feeling frustrated and disjointed. I didn't choose my colours very well for this work however, I made the tissue paper too dark which led to the prints being hard to see. Continuing with making better backings I added newspaper onto the next one so no matter what co...