I've never tried emulsion print, I saw Charlotte and Yang had made some good looking work with this method so I was keen to try it with their guidance.
I had a canvas that I'd already recycled and lino printed with an acorn design earlier in the project. I though my green man lino cut would fit in nicely with the acorn motif and also as the canvas was already recycled, worn and weathered this I thought the emulsion approach would fit with collage effect, also if I made a mistake I'm not precious about this piece of work as it was only ever experimental.
The method;
Make photo copies of original lino print ( I made in a varying shades of green).
Apply emulsion paint to the area of canvas you want your prints to go.
fApply the photo copies face down on the canvas.
Cover with a sheet of clean paper to protect and iron dry.
Once dry dampen the back of the photo copy with a snoge and rub away the paper leaving just the ink behand.
It wasn't perfect and a lot if the detail rubbed off giving a distressed look which worked well with the design and current state of the canvass and is possibly a feature of this method.
I liked the layering effect and feel it would look better with more prints over the top , maybe more acorns to deepen the overall look and to disguise the frame of emulsion around the prints
The overall look is weathered/ distressed and I quite like it, it works with the folk/ nature theme
The green man design was made to fit an A5 lino so the design of the leaves cuts off at the edges , this bit doesn't work as well and would look better if they inter connected in some way ( Id originally made it to be a single print ) However as a first attempt its not bad and its a method I would like to take into my next project and expand on.
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