Printmaking - elements

My element was radon. Radon's atomic number is 86. Radon is a colorless, odorless, tasteless element that is most commonly found in gas form. The most common place you will find radon is in a basement. Normally people will do radon level testing once a year in their basements, the gas is very dangerous and lethal. I got the idea for the imagery I chose, because radon is also found a lot in water wells, I thought the basement would be too easy, and obvious, so the well required research and more thought. The process I went through to make this print was to first do a rough sketch of a couple different ideas I was having for my element. Then I finalized the a whole well, with poisonous gas emerging from it, I sketched out another rough draft with small tweaks from the one before. From then on, I re-did my sketch on the piece of styrofoam like paper. The number and letters had to be printed backwards in order for them to be going the right way in the final product. I engraved my sketch into the styrofoam so the outlines of my drawing were clear and marked, paint then covered every inch. I took a piece of paper and layed it overtop of the paint covered paper, and pressed out every part onto the paper. After peeling off the paper, the styrofoam was almost like a stamp of paint and copied my engraving onto the normal paper.  If I were to print again, I think I would engrave my picutre stronger and use more paint of the paper. The part of the project I enjoyed the most was researching and thinking out of the box for my idea for the sketch. First I did an initial google search on my element and was underwhelmed when I saw how bland it was. The first result was "Radon - colorless, tasteless, odorless", but after investigating in the environmental impacts and how it's commonly found, it was clear, there needed to be more digging and endless ideas for my sketch.