DryPoints

This print was onto cartridge paper, i did all the right things
+ I got the paper wet then allowed it to dry slightly
+ I rubbed an even amount of ink into the acetate
+ The pressure was the same as the previous prints
But the ink didnt stick to the paper as wel as i would of thought of... i'v found that the heavier the paper the less the ink sticks to it.
I actually think it's quite an effective print even though it didnt work wel, the patchy print looks interesting.

DryPoints

My 3rd and 4th dry points were actually on a lighter weight paper, which is normally used for printing onto. I couldnt leave them to get wet for too long or they just fell apart so they wernt very damp, this made me think originally it wasnt going to work well but infact as you can see they worked extremely wel especially the orange. The black ink looks good against the vibrant orange background, i think the ink was i bit thick as it took a long while to dry and it's a very dark print but it worked wel. The white also worked wel but when i rubbed the ink into the etched area i didnt take all the excess off around the acetate and so it printed some spotty patches onto the page a little.

DryPoints

My first few dry points were a case of getting the amount of ink right and the dampness of the paper perfect. I used sugar paper because i know, through stage 1, that it worked wel. But both of these didnt work very wel the yellow paper was stil too damp and absorbed too much ink until it leaked into the page and the purple paper was too dry so the print didnt print very clear.

Experimenting with Dry Point...

I thought it was important to experiment with other print processes rather than assume they wouldnt work; a close technique, in my view, to lino printing is dry point. Here is my fully scratched and inked up dry point acetate ready for print. I thought about doing the reverse to how i did my lino (Positive/negative) and i scratched onto the acetate in a way that when printed the positive area of the crow would appear.