Learning to Monotype

I just finished up a monotype class at The Lower East Side Printshop. I had a one day workshop in the process when I was in college, but I haven't been able to to revisit it until recently. I really love the process and all the approaches you can take to create an image. I hope to continue working with it.

Above is a mostly painted monotype based on a photograph of some aquarium jellyfish. Below is an image from my Lisbon sketchbook over some inked up stencils.

With the next few I experimented with different approaches towards realizing images based on the the same few drawings. There are some interesting things happening with layering and overprinting that I'd like to experiment with more.

Here are a couple more random images. One based of some subway sketches and the other on New York Marathon runners.

Anyway, this is just a start. Hopefully I'll continue with the process and report back with more images.

Do I feel lucky?

From Sunil's Sketches

Dirty Harry during the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival.

Warm Day

It's cold and rainy in NYC today, but we actually had some beautiful in weather earlier this month. I sketched this in Washington Square Park on one of the first warm days of the year.



My blog has been very quiet lately, but I'll be sure post whenever I have something exciting to share. You can also check out my Flickr page for some images that don't make the blog.

Grand Central

Sketched this during a February "Drawing Jammy" with the skilled David Ezra Stein. These two are from the food court and main hall of Grand Central Station. A bonus was some clam chowder at the Oyster Bar.