Mono printing

Mono Printing is another transfer technique that involves either adding or taking away ink to create an image.

This is polystyrene printing and it creates a negative print; you create an dot work image in a piece of polystyrene and join up the lines to make your image. You then add the ink to the polystyrene with a roller and place it on an piece of paper and add pressure. When you remove the polystyrene, you will be left with a negative print of the image.

This is additive mono printing, which can be done in two ways; when the tile that you apply the ink to is dry it will leave you with a high contrast print, where as, if the tile was damp, it would create a tonal print that has a lower contrast.

This is subtractive mono printing that involves taking away existing ink from a tile with either a dry or damp cloth to create a print; i found this type of  mono printing the most difficult as it was harder to control, especially when using a damp cloth to subtract the ink.