Sophie Holliday

Just finished editing my film documenting my FMP journey Cornish Imprints.

Using this photograph I took showing texture and colours of Mousehole harbour shore, I have been experimenting with a variety of different monoprinting techniques.  Using a gel printing plate with an image underneath, I built up the image using one colour at a time for each layer - starting with the lighter tones and finishing with the darker tones. I continued this process with all the colours until the image was complete. I used water based ink and applied it with a paintbrush then placed the paper onto the gel printing plate, taking care to line it up and used a roller to transfer the ink to the paper.  Although time consuming, I like the result. To develop this, I used a sheet of carbon paper to add small details and marks. This is the result. I then tried another process. On a piece of glass, I rolled out a thin layer of blue oil based ink, placed a piece of paper on top and then placed the original photograph on top the paper. With ...

I wanted to see what marks and impressions I could create using my beach finds. After saturating pieces of heavyweight paper in water I pressed and wrapped the paper around the shells, creating textured imprints. I found that placing the forms onto a light box highlighted the abstract marks. I photographed them and darkened the marks in Photoshop. I think that it looks like a fossilised shell.