When I am working with new inks or paints, one of the first things I do is paint a color wheel to see the range of hues and intensities. The colors of the Speedball printmaking inks are really intense, which I like. I also like the colors a lot. I'm not fond of the hues in a set of watercolor paints I have and rarely use them but then I favor certain grocery stores because I like the lighting and colors. The printmaking wheel inspired me to use a complementary color for the pear stencil. The background is similar to the previous monoprint I posted but the complementary color really makes it "pop". I used a smaller gelatin plate (not moldly) for the stencil. I have also discovered that inks pulled from gelatin plates are more translucent than I would have expected. The gelatin plate accepts very little ink compared to some of the other processes I've used. To create a more opaque layer I tried rolling ink directly on the paper and that works. My favorite colors are usually the results of tints, shades, and blending complements so that will be my next experiment. The blues and golds above were the result of tinting the primary colors. The orange of the stencil is from the tube.
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