More monotypes! I have Akua ink coming today, which will had whole new dimensions to this experiment. Wheee!
Marsh. 4.5x6 inches. Monotype print
A Space. 4.5x6 inches. Monotype print.
More monotypes! I have Akua ink coming today, which will had whole new dimensions to this experiment. Wheee!
Marsh. 4.5x6 inches. Monotype print
A Space. 4.5x6 inches. Monotype print.
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.
Taking a whack at Inktober.
Fading Rudbeckia. 5x7 inches. pen and ink on paper.
I’m back! I hiked 130 miles of the Long Trail and got a bunch of great material. So much of the trail is bog boards. I took the photo for this painting after a worn-out bog board very nearly sent me into the mucky half of a beautiful beaver pond.
Beaver Pond Bog Boards. 12x16 inches. Oil on paper.
Okay. So. It turns out that hiking 13 or so miles a day, setting up camp, feeding ourselves, and having it get dark at 7:15 makes it pretttttty tricky to draw during the day. But! I’m taking lots of pictures, admiring miles and miles (and more miles) of forest, and getting some killer horizon views from these Green Mountain summits. AND today we saw a great big fat spotted salamander cross the path! The barred owls are singing us to sleep with their David Lynchian opera tonight. Here are two quick sketches that I’ve done.
Tent Line. 5x7 inches. Pen on paper.
Ouch. 5x7 inches. Graphite on paper.
We’re hiking along the Long Trail in Vermont for ten days! I brought a few drawing supplies along. Here’s a quick drawing of our little home-for-now. :) Only 114.3 miles to go until we’re back in Massachusetts!
Home-for-now. 5x7 inches. Pen on paper.
Happy Weekend! Enjoy :)
Darts. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Pink Wave. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Fire God. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Moody. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Seeds. 5.5x4.25 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Peach Fuzz Scribble. 6x4.5 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Flipped. 6x4.5 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
More dahlias! I did this painting twice. The first one took me 2 hours and I ended up wiping the whole thing off. The second one took me 40 minutes and I feel much better about it. I’m learning how to draw with my paintbrush….finally. Painting small is such a different experience, here I’ve been struggling along for a decade with paintings too big for me to move alone!
Dark Star. 8x6 inches. Oil on panel.
I think a lot about how to combine drawing and painting. Maybe I’m getting a little closer. This was done in one sitting.
Peach Fuzz. 8x6 inches. oil on panel.
postcard sized little experiments
Winter Scribble. 4.25x5.5 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Summer Scribble. 4.25x5.5 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Gold Scribble. 4.25x5.5 inches. graphite, watercolor, and acrylic on paper.
The rose bush outside the room is shooting it’s branches straight up before the cool weather comes.
8x10 inches. graphite on paper
…and a splash of color.
Scribble I. 4x6 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Scribble II. 4x6 inches. graphite and watercolor on paper.
Trying out different kinds of watercolor paper with these new water soluble graphite pencils..
I Do Dahlia. 8x10 inches. graphite on hot press watercolor paper.
I Do Dahlia II. 8x6 inches. graphite on cold press watercolor paper.
I’ve been having a few days where my drawings aren’t quite making it past phase one. These things happen.
Yesterday, I tried playing with some new materials and scribbling. Here’s what came of it…
Storm. 9x12 inches. graphite on watercolor paper.
Fog. 9x12 inches. graphite on watercolor paper
Ripples. 9x12 inches. graphite on watercolor paper.
Spotted from the swimming hole.
8 x 10 inches. graphite on paper.
Hiding in the branches. Hot August day at the farm.
8 x 10 inches. graphite on paper.
The trees at the farm are starting to look pretty full!
Pear Branch. 8x10 inches. graphite on paper.
From inside the dahlia patch…
6x8 inches. graphite on hot press watercolor paper.
Hiked my drawing things into the woods and drew from our daily path. Big rocks are tricky! Luckily, I had good company.
Forest Rocks and Fern. 5x7 inches. graphite on paper
cricket
This morning had a cool crisp autumnal breeze.