For these monoprints, Giovanni used the subtractive method. First he rolled black ink to cover a copper plate, then he removed the light areas of the composition, leaving the black to be soaked up by the paper, when pressed.
[caption id=”attachment_13845″ align=”aligncenter” width=”300 Giovanni Battista Castiglione, monotype
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8653″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Image above from Urban Sketchers Chicago Chris Harvey has a lot of long straight architectural lines in his painting, and no matter what he tried, every pass with the brush resulted in another wobbly line. The wobbles weren’t interesting or expressive, they were distracting from the painting’s quality …
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R. B. Kitaj 1932 – 2007 Edited from https://artbios.net/5-en.html R.B. Kitaj was an American artist who championed figuration in the aftermath of expressionism. Kitaj was an influential figure in the London art scene and was intimate with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, coining the term “London School” for this group. His art was unabashedly erudite and often accompanied …
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s monotypes
For these monoprints, Giovanni used the subtractive method. First he rolled black ink to cover a copper plate, then he removed the light areas of the composition, leaving the black to be soaked up by the paper, when pressed.
[caption id=”attachment_13845″ align=”aligncenter” width=”300
Giovanni Battista Castiglione, monotype
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