If you would like to come into the studio and do a workshop with this technique, send me an email and we can arrange it. They are all one-of-a-kind, and are ready for framing. I thought I would make a giant print out of them:Īll of these prints are available for sale in the shop. You want to avoid moving it once its touched the paint, or the image will smudge. Towards the end of the session, I had collected a lot of inked leaves. Fee: 350 (includes 35 material fee) This workshop combines the directness and immediacy of the monotype with the richness and luminosity of encaustic painting. Carefully place the piece of paper for the monotype onto the paint or ink. I thought I would make a giant print out of them.
Towards the end of the session, I had collected a lot of inked leaves.
#MOMOTYPE PRINTMAKING FULL#
Here is a shot of my inking table, full of colorful inks, followed by a bunch of photos of how I made other prints in this series. With this method, each plate produces three distinct prints. We are proud to offer several custom-built monotype presses. Using tweezers, I carefully remove and discard the leaves. has devoted an entire line of printmaking presses to the art of monotype prints because of its popularity among printmakers.
I place paper on it and run it through the press. Next, I clean my plate, and lay the carefully leaves I removed earlier, ink side up, on the plate. Next, I pull what is called a ghost print with this plate.Ĭheck out the detail that you get from the leaves with this technique. What is wonderful is that the ginkgo leaves have left an impression in the ink. The plate with the leaves removed still has a lot of ink. The next step is to carefully remove the leaves from the plate with tweezers. The first print is the reverse of the leaves against the inked plate. Your printmaking materials box will contain: Monotype plate Relief printmaking ink Fabriano Rosapina printmaking paper Seawhites Cartridge paper Tissue. I place the Rives BFK paper on the bed, crank it through the press, and the leaves impress the paper nicely. I carefully place ginkgo leaves on the inked plate.
#MOMOTYPE PRINTMAKING REGISTRATION#
The template underneath gives me proper registration for the paper to the plate. I file down the edges so it does not cut the felts on my etching press.
Here is my step-by-step methods for making these prints.įirst, I ink up a plate of plexiglass. This year was no exception, and I had a great few days in the studio making these prints, experimenting with several new colors.
#MOMOTYPE PRINTMAKING SERIES#
Monoprints of this nature can often be used as stand-alone prints or in conjunction with other serigraphy processes, once the initial monoprint is complete.Every spring I gather ginkgo leaves from around the neighborhood and make a series of monoprints from them.
(A monotype is a painterly print, there is only one singular original created utilizing this unique printmaking process. Some days I find more joy in working and reworking the plate than actually stopping to print it. This method offers a very painted and illustrated approach to a process usually perceived as being predominantly block based. The monotype medium is fantastically forgiving. This technique can trace it’s origins back to Europe, at the time of the Crusades, when red crosses were sometimes stencilled onto robes by printing through a fine cloth stretched, over iron hoops. Safer Printmaking with Akua Inks DVD 25.00 Add to cart The Contemporary Printmaker 49. Monotype Mediums & Methods for Painterly Printmaking quantity. Layers of colour can then be built up with multiple stencils, allowing the ink to dry on the surface (on either paper or fabric) between layers. Monotype Mediums & Methods for Painterly Printmaking 22.95. Screen printing, in its most basic form, utilises block stencils to push ink or dye through a fine woven mesh with a squeegee to achieve the desired image. The key concept and success to this technique (in combination with the concept of the monoprint) is in its spontaneity and fluidity. Using photographic techniques, explore the unique painterly effect of monotype with screen printing in this one-day course. A screen print (also referred to as a serigraph or silk screen) is a planographic method of printmaking using stencil techniques and is utilised for both fine art reproduction on to paper and surface textile printing.
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