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Thursday 5 May 2011

River monoprint experiments


 



















I needed to 'get away' from looking at the painting I've been working on so I've had a day of monoprinting and working through a couple of ideas. These two prints are on quarter sheet HOT PRESS watercolour paper using Winsor & Newton's water mixable oil paint. My plan is to work back into them with watercolour and maybe some oil pastel as soon as they are dry (at least a week). Working in this way sparks off lots of ideas for me I like the unpredictable results and surface texture the process creates. It's also a great way to loosen up which was much needed after working intensely on the current painting.
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6 comments:

  1. vivien5 May 2011 at 18:34

    I like these - it's too long since I did any monoprinting. I need to do some soon.

    It's a lovely way to free up and get more experimental isn't it?

    Have you tried soft pastels over monoprints? I've done that with prints on Rosapina paper and it worked beautifully.

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  2. Lisa Le Quelenec5 May 2011 at 19:11

    Hi Vivien, I've just been over to your blog then your comment popped up in my email. I'll have to try the soft pastel over the mono, I didn't think of that. I was thinking of the resists I could get with watercolour and missed the obvious. Thank you.

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  3. Caroline Simmill6 May 2011 at 09:38

    Hi Lisa what did you use to make the print image? wood or something else it would be interesting to hear how you produced these lovely images.

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  4. Lisa Le Quelenec7 May 2011 at 13:16

    Hi Caroline, I used perspex for these, I thought I'd explain in a post. Have a great weekend.

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  5. Anonymous7 May 2011 at 20:32

    Lisa, these look great, and I can’t wait to see what you do with them. Thanks for suggesting a post on the steps to how you produce your mono prints… I have no idea about it, but I’m in and experimental zone right now…. so would love to have a go if I have all the materials at hand.

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  6. Lisa Le Quelenec9 May 2011 at 18:34

    Hi Maggie, I've been enjoying looking at your experiments. I'm sure that you would have the materials. Lots of things can be used as a plate to print from (wood, metal sheet, card, I've used those plastic sleeves that are used for filing before I just taped them to a drawing board.) If you do have a go I'd love to have a peek :o)

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