If there's time at the end of a print workshop session, it is good to go off plan and make something different with the left over inks. In the past this has been confined to using tissue paper. Mopping up what's left in the mixing plate, leaving it to dry before putting it into (an increasingly large) Chine-collé portfolio.
However, this time I cut some basic shapes before the session with a mind to do something else.
I am quite enjoying the offset of bold colour against some of my more recent monochrome work.
The two seem to compliment each other rather well. Below is a monoprint using drypoint detail with carborundum. Titled 'Hele Bay' it is an abstract on the part of North Devon coast I am soon to live.
