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This week I continued to experiment with monotypes. I discovered a fun way to do monotypes on YouTube that is fast and easy and cheap. You can see the how-to here:
Basically you ink up a plastic bag, place it over your paper, and rub the back of the bag to transfer ink to the paper. I rubbed with my finger, a cotton swab, and a sharpened wooden match stick to make marks and areas of tone. You can also scrape ink off the bag before you print to make white marks. You can lift the bag off the paper to see how things are going and put it back down again to continue.
These are all 5×7. I used water soluble block printing ink on watercolor paper. One advantage to this method is that you are not working in reverse. What you draw is what you get.
These are the equivalent of a quick sketch. After you print one, you can use the ink that is left on the bag to print another. You get a negative.
Yesterday morning, Saturday, I attended another Paint the Town event. This one was held at Minto Island Growers farm. When I go there, there was a yoga class in session. I decided to sketch them as a warm up. I didn’t worry about accuracy. I just wanted to catch the idea of the different poses.
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Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media paper 9×12 inches (22.9×30.5 cm), Sharpie and PITT pens, and Kuretake watercolors.
I also sketched the food area. We had a cellist playing classical music while we sketched and painted which was wonderful.
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Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media paper 9×12 inches (22.9×30.5 cm), ballpoint black pen, Daniel Smith watercolor.
Jim
