Making Marks for Monoprinting

This week we are making marks with found stencils and using "treasures" that may be all around us to see what we can use them for apart from their obvious uses.  I used muslin cloth, great for showing the weave of fabric, hessian stencil and netting, lace, marks from cut glass, metal, testing and trying all different things.  Some I thought would be great, were not.  Others I did not think would work, worked well, so always learning.  I will have to try to make some more marks on the weekend.  Lots of experimenting for sure.

10 Prints of Shape and Favourite 4 - End of Week 2 Monotype Printing

This print session I stuck to the focus of 10 prints of the same shape and elements and then selected my best 4.  Every session I print, I learn so much.  I have a small light brayer but it needs some practice by the user!  Lovely and light but getting the lines out of the printed geli plate is needing more work.  Still using watercolour paints at the moment until my ink and brayer order arrives.  Happy with the simplicity of these prints.  I am very happy with the lady cut-out shape and love the shadow print of her in green with the other faces watching her.  Images like this create your own observatory questions of what it is meant to mean or exhibit?  In my opinion here - nothing but a beautiful shape admired by faces with no distinguishing features - like a model on a catwalk perhaps.  Enjoy!

 

Week 2 Monoprinting in one session

Time was not on my side this week, so I sort of incorporated all the requirements of the video classes into one session doing several different stencils and elements and types of prints with a bit of thought as to composition and structure.  I had hoped the lady would work better but she kept rolling up on me making it difficult to print.  I was happy using the feather as is already has the fine shape and went well with her I thought.  Later I saw the head shape and cut that out and tried a few creative things to put in the head space and at 1am called it a night but it was fun!  I am really enjoying the processes involved and have a lot more respect for the art.  It is harder to get it looking the way you want it than it seems, trust me!