Monotype Printmaking: Create Abstract Backgrounds For Drawing, Lettering, and Collage

In this class you’ll create a free-form and unique artwork using a monotype printmaking technique and hand drawn images.

Monotype uses a non-absorbent surface as the “plate” which we add our inks or paints to. Pressing our paper onto the plate and lifting it back up gives us an abstract image which we use as inspiration for our next step.  This process encourages you to be brave and experiment, and to find beauty in the unexpected. The course is broken down into a few simple steps and there is plenty of room for improvisation!

This class is ideal for aspiring and professional illustrators, artists, makers, or surface designers who want a new technique to jump start their creative projects. It’s especially useful when feeling indecisive, hesitant or creatively blocked. I really hope that this technique becomes a part of your art toolbox and that you pull it out for use whenever you feel stuck or afraid of the dreaded BLANK PAGE

• Intro
• Materials and Project
• Playing with Monotype
• Layering Colors
• Finding an Image
• Drawing
• Other Ideas
• Thank you