Trace Monotype & Watercolor: All in Green

After inking the plate to make a monotype, I lay a thin sheet of paper on top of the wet ink, and draw the beginnings of my image on the paper. The pencil-to-paper texture is familiar to me, and the pressure of drawing collects a line of ink on the back of the paper as my pencil bears down on the cover sheet. The image below is the result when the paper is peeled away. When I peel the paper sketch off the plate, the faint line work that stayed on the back of the sheet is a map in the ink (above) to get started with, *and* there's a wet-ink line drawing on the back of the paper I peeled off the plate.
Here is the paper I sketched on my inked plate for Freshly Tilled - above, with wet ink side, face up.
Pulling a print from the paper drawing...

In the image above, the sheet of paper I did the sketch on can be used to make a trace-monotype print if the wet-ink-side is pressed against printmaking paper. The image below is a print pulled from the wet ink cover sheet of the monotype titled Lineage I.Adding Watercolor washes... All in Green 5 x 4.5 Trace Monotype & Watercolor
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All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.

e e cummings