Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Monoprinting bliss

Lately I've been craving a new way of creating imagery.  I feel like I need a big old gust of fresh air into my work.  So I've spent some time toiling away and staring into space at my desk and finally decided to try a technique that I haven't used since my art school days...Monoprinting.

Monoprinting is a method of printmaking where only one impression is made, rather than multiple.  There are many ways of doing this, but I used a piece of plexiglass, Dr. PH Martin's super saturated ink, and acrylic black ink with a paintbrush.


I found a piece of plexiglass lying around in my cabinet and I was ready to go!  Once I go started I wondered what had taken me so long to use this method!  Especially for texture and controlled, yet unpredictable, swaths of color.






I even tried printing on top of some existing etchings I had lying around.  I love the way these little blobby moths turned out.



Happy printing happy days

2 comments:

www.juliadenos.com said...

These are so gorgeous, Emily! Love the new technique. Do you press the plexi to the paper, or vice versa?

e.b. goodale said...

Thanks Julia! I tape the paper to the plexi so that I can pull it up and down again like a hinge. Then I paint onto the plexi, put the paper down and press it down. You can do this over and over again and the paper will land in the same place everytime.

I don't think this is really the official way but it works!