Monotype Printing

Slowly but steadily, I put the negative print I just created through a heavy-duty press while man-powering the machine. I have never felt a stronger connection and intimacy with my artworks. Maybe it is in our nature that the more difficult the process is, the more we appreciate the result.

The negative print is sitting on top of a light box

Negative print of a snowy birth forest

An exciting aspect of monotype print is that you can only get one original copy out of  a negative print (I'm not talking about putting the original print through a copy machine). Once you print it, all the paint on the plate is gone. So no matter how attached you are to the result, you just have to keep moving forward and building on previous images.

Catherine lent me a book about monotype printing at the end of the workshop. I guess I always gave people an impression that I have not learned enough :)