Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Learning to Monotype

Painted 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.

Monotype with 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.

2 Color Reductive monotype
3 Color Reductive Monotype
Reductive, Trace, and Stenciled Monotype
Ghosts prints

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

Trace Monotype
Reductive Monotype with collage

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

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