Have You Tried Monotypes?? - Painting & Drawing Tips

If you haven't tried Monotypes, YOU ARE MISSING ALL THE FUN!!

3 Different Monotypes - Stand Alone Art or Embellish or Collage into something Else - Your Choice

Ok, maybe not all the fun but certainly lots of it. 

What are Monotype?

Frankly I have never really been interested in any kind of Print making.  But I had booked Katina Giesbrecht for a demo on Monotypes for our art club.  (of course before the world changed . . .)  I was really intrigued with the opportunities that opened up with Monotypes.  I decided to look into them more.  For those wondering, a Monotype is a One-of-a-kind print off a plate/glass.

You can easily find the supplies in your paint cupboard or find you need only a few things to get started

Gather your supplies first:

 - a piece of glass (for your plate. I used a piece from one of my frames)  (gelatin sheets or silicone baking sheet also work well. )
- acrylic paints  (Open Acrylics have a longer drying time so do work the best)
- brush, roller, spatula, 2 inch brayer, stick, ( or any kind of tool for mark making.)
- paper towel for clean up
- water bowl
- variety of paper cut to size ( I used cardstock, Rives Cotton Paper, Arches Watercolour paper.  Rice Paper, Stonehenge  Yuko, are also good.)

Apply the paint onto the glass using your paint tool. 

Set up:
1. I put plastic down with my glass on top.  Under the plasic I put a piece of paper so could see where on the glass my paper would fit.  I used 11 x 14 glass and papers, 8 x 10 and 5.5 x 7.7.  I marked the smaller size on the background paper as well.

2.  Water, paints, marking tools, cut paper ready and handy.  You need to work fast before the paint dries so have everything ready to go. You can use a medium to lengthen the drying time for the paint.

Place your paper over the paint and press hard.  Rubbing all over to ensure paper and paint bond.

Start Painting: 

3.  Start painting onto your glass - use only 1 colour or 2 to start. 

4.  When design is ready place your paper over it and press down.  Roll with a brayer or rub with your hands

If you have a brayer use that to ensure paint and paper are bonding. 

5.  Peel the paper off the glass

Peel the paper off the glass and have a look.  

6.  Take another piece of paper and put it on the glass and apply press.  This second print is called a  “Ghost Print”.  Work quickly as your paint is drying quickly. THe Ghost Print usually has less paint on it than the first one and often more interesting textures. 

Ghost Print from a different print.  Notice the interesting textures and lighter colours.  

Have some Fun with it:

-  Clean off the glass and add a bit more colour/design and then press the printed paper on to it.  

- Spray a bit of water on your paper before pressing to the painted glass.  This can thin the paint and make colours lighter.

Here I have taken a Ghost Print and added some yellow to one side of it.  

- Make some texture or lines in the paint on the glass before placing the paper on it.  

- Try different shapes, colours, textures onto existing printed paper or start new ones.
- Add as many layers as you want. 

Monotypes (Monoprints) can be a stand alone Art Form or they can be collaged into your other art.  I am going to use mine to collage with and to draw on.

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