Last week Nikki Barber and I surprised my drawing classes with an unexpected session of printmaking. After a few weeks of drawing practice, Beginning and Figure Drawing students made monotypes for the first time, and LOVED IT.
Today I’m posting still life monoprints by the beginning drawing students. Tomorrow I’ll post figurative monoprints by the figure drawing 2 students.
We started with a piece of acetate, and covered it in ink. Nikki showed us how to load the brayer and listen to the sounds of the ink so we knew we had the right amount. Then students used the subtractive method, in which the image starts dark, and wiped away areas of light. It’s a mind flip to go from adding for dark to subtracting for light. Subtractive work changes how people see and how we think, and creates lovely painterly effects.
The inky plates are then run through the etching press, with damp paper. The paper picks up the ink, and becomes a monoprint.Monoprints are one of a kind prints; a type of printmaking for painters, in a way. The first time the paper is pulled from the plate is the first time the artist sees their work clearly. So exciting!
Check out some of the prints we made this week. You may notice some of the prints have two images – one with black ink and another with grey stippled ink. The black ink is the first print. The grey stippled ink is the ghost print, or the second printing from the same plate. Ghost prints sometimes turn out more handsome than the first print because the soft grey is so subtle and lovely. Remember: these beginning drawing students have never done anything like this before. These are their first prints! Fabulous.
Still Life Monotypes
Beginning Drawing Class
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Before all those orange artworks, I was posting about Figure in Interior; the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of. I talked about Cezanne, and how making small marks distributed around the page (thank you to Fran O’Neill) can be a way to integrate time and change within a drawing. My premise …
Feet in blanket, drypoint and embossed chine-collé on 14×11″ Rives gray BFK. (The color is a little dark and dull in this photo, because the paper was still wet) An accidental print resulted in some body-less feet at the bottom of the page, and Nikki had a brilliant idea to add chine-collé to the empty …
Gilbert Stuart’s Unfinished Portrait of George Washington Gilbert Stuart first painted George Washington in 1795 (in a work now known only from copies). That painting was so successful that, according to artist Rembrandt Peale, Martha Washington “wished a Portrait for herself.” She persuaded her husband to sit again for Stuart “on the express condition that …
Still Life Monotypes
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Monoprint by Caroline
Last week Nikki Barber and I surprised my drawing classes with an unexpected session of printmaking. After a few weeks of drawing practice, Beginning and Figure Drawing students made monotypes for the first time, and LOVED IT.
Today I’m posting still life monoprints by the beginning drawing students. Tomorrow I’ll post figurative monoprints by the figure drawing 2 students.
We started with a piece of acetate, and covered it in ink. Nikki showed us how to load the brayer and listen to the sounds of the ink so we knew we had the right amount. Then students used the subtractive method, in which the image starts dark, and wiped away areas of light. It’s a mind flip to go from adding for dark to subtracting for light. Subtractive work changes how people see and how we think, and creates lovely painterly effects.
The inky plates are then run through the etching press, with damp paper. The paper picks up the ink, and becomes a monoprint.Monoprints are one of a kind prints; a type of printmaking for painters, in a way. The first time the paper is pulled from the plate is the first time the artist sees their work clearly. So exciting!
Check out some of the prints we made this week. You may notice some of the prints have two images – one with black ink and another with grey stippled ink. The black ink is the first print. The grey stippled ink is the ghost print, or the second printing from the same plate. Ghost prints sometimes turn out more handsome than the first print because the soft grey is so subtle and lovely. Remember: these beginning drawing students have never done anything like this before. These are their first prints! Fabulous.
Still Life Monotypes
Beginning Drawing Class
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Beginning Drawing
Monday 10:00-1:00
Starts April 1
Beginning Drawing
Mondays 6:00-9:00
Starts April 1
Monotypes
Tuesdays 6:00-10:00
Starts April 2
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8 layer woodcut by Nikki Barber
Nikki Barber: Rocks, Trees, and Places I’ve seen
Opening reception: Saturday March 9th 6-9pm
Show runs: March 9th-31st
Editions Studios
6520 5th Avenue South #114, Seattle
https://www.editions.studio/thestudio
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