Persons of Note: monoprints and final designs

I really wanted to use the I Ching to create my monoprints by allocating different numbers different actions, but when it actually came around to trying to do this I just found it too difficult because there would be so much to take into account if I wanted to create monoprints using this method. I'm a bit disappointed by this since it would have best represented the way John Cage composes, and it would also reflect his own artwork.

However, I'm really pleased with the monoprints I ended up with. Instead of my original idea, instead I just randomly generated a lot of I Ching hexagrams and cut these out into stencils. The results are quite abstract and it's not totally clear at first glance that they're hexagrams but I'm really happy with them, particularly the colours. I think the fluorescent orangey/yellow colour works well with the blue.

 

These are my favourite three, and the three monoprints I'm going to use for my postcards. I like that it isn't really clear what is being represented, because I wanted my final outcome to be quite subjective.

For the stamps, I've decided to use sections of the above monoprints. I thought about cutting them up and rearranging the shapes like I experimented with in my sketchbook but I think that would be too much detail for something so small. These are the final stamp designs.