I completed drawings of the same dove using two juxtaposing media. Both images have a hazy quality of line; the monoprint dove has very grainy, dark mark making where areas of the fibrous old paper has made contact with the ink whereas the silk drawn dove has a more blurred, pale line where the ink from the fineliner has spread across the permeable silk. The monoprint dove has an allover more solid and tangible effect because of the intensity of the black ink on the off-white paper. The Silk drawing on the other hand appears a lot more flimsy due to the translucent quality of the fabric and indistinct line.
I think the detail I can achieve with monoprinting goes beyond what I can with the silk drawing in this instance.
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