The Game and the Playe of the Chesse
In response to a theme of Contrast and wanting to explore monoprints I returned to the chessboard as a motif.
I used stencils cut from recycled card, laser prints of my drawings of the Lewis chessmen and quotations from Caxton’s ‘The game and playe of the chesse’ I started with black and white, then added red and green, then settled for contrasts of complementary colours and light and dark. I had so many prints that I ended up joining them back to back and combining them in a wire edged bound book. These are just a sample |
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