My beveled zinc plate with Daniel Smith black etching ink rolled out, and manipulated with fingers, rolled paper towel blotters, pastel stomps and pencil points.
The press was set too tight - by just a hair - and I lost all my halftones on the print. Too much ink transferred to the paper with all that pressure. Drats. The hazards of fatigue in the print lab. Plan B: Colored pencil Search & Rescue. It's like drawing with pastels on a chalk board, and it's great fun. (C'mon, try it.)
Huntington Garden Cactus 4x6 Monotype & Colored Pencil Available for sale here. (sold)
10/20/06
Huntington Garden Cactus; Monotype & Colored Pencil
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4 comments:
Wonderful piece. and wonderful peace. I like the way you left room for the viewer by putting the figure all the way to he right. A very restful painting. It needs a very soothing name.
I love this one, I like the rest of your work too, very cool. I just did a few monoprints, I used black oil paints and I made quite the mess, fun though. Is the ink you are using water or oil based? I was thinking of trying to bring some sort of composition out of mine, not sure if they have hope or not. :D Lori
This one just might be my favorite monotype, even though you say it's overinked. Now I know cactus is a good monotype subject, isn't it?
Great rescue! I think I like the colored pencil over the ink better than watercolor! This is a fantastic piece.
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