When I was at UT I started out studying printmaking. Eventually, somewhere around the end of my second year, I discovered monotype printing. Monotype is often called “the painterly print” or the “printer’s painting.” When my teacher saw my excitement for the process she quickly suggested that I get my butt up to the painting studios ASAP. The next year that’s exactly what I did and I was swept up into a world of paints. But those monotypes haunted me and I’ve been wishing for a way to make them again for years. I never really thought about it hard enough to figure out how to do it myself at home without a printing press (turns out it’s super simple.) Until! I was recently gifted a set of Caran d’Ache crayons (thanks Momma and Steph!) and “monotype printing” was thrown into the little list of things to be done with them in the box’s insert sheet. Honestly…I haven’t been this obsessed with making something in a very long time. I wake up, I come in the studio, I experiment and print and dance little dances until hunger forces me into the kitchen for a break. Then, I come back and do it again until the dog’s little pacing visits force me into the woods for a walk-break. OBSESSED. okay. enough talk. here you go. these are all postcard sized, roughly 4.5x6 inches.
these two little outliers were made with actual water-based printing ink that I had lying around.
Beaver Pond. 4.6x6 inches. Monotype print.
Snaps. 5x7.5 inches. Monotype Print.
I have so many that I’m sending them out as postcards. Do you want one? Leave me a note and we’ll figure it out!
xoxo, m.