August Green, Watercolour Monotype

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 I'm looking forward to using more of this very seductive process this year. For someone like me, who works quickly, it pays to have a number of plates on the go at the same time, because you have to wait for the watercolour to dry completely before you add another layer, or before you print. This is the first print produced, from a single plate image.

2 plates were used for this one, and I think I may have worked back into it with watercolour. The techniques become seamless and after a while, it's even hard to tell what was printed, and what was added by brush later.

 

Watercolor Monotypes

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Both of these little monotypes are the first printings. In each case I printed the plates a few more times. In the past, I often went back into the plates to made additions between printings, but I didn't in this case. There are always a great many things to try with monoprinting. The workspace shot is my little table at Haliburton. I miss that lovely studio already.

Haliburton Monotypes

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I have long done monoprints or montypes but forgot how wonderful they are. The advantages are the ease and freedom of the processes, and the opportunity to exploit surprise. In a recent workshop attended at Haliburton School of the Arts, I used watercolour on sanded heavy duty plastic plates which were run through the press. Most images were double plate images, meaning that one plate was used to print a unifying undercolour before the top image plate was run through the press. Some of the prints I keep without any further additions, but many have more watercolour added once the paper is dry....this is an example of that.

I will post more monoprints from this workshop over the next week.

I also fell in love with the Haliburton School of the Arts studio building...it is a roomy, wonderful place to work!