Monoprinting

Their various types of mono Printing. Using the gel plate is one or even going professional with a professional press is another. Caroline did a demo that was a very basic type of mono Printing. She started off with a plate of glass approximately 8 1/2 x 11 and a piece of watercolor paper that was double that size plus. She placed the glass on 1/2 of the paper and folded the paper over so that it was generously able to cover the glass. She taped the paper in place around the glass and made sure that the glass was not going to move.

 She started off the demo by starting a painting in a blue sky color with white clouds. This took up approximately 1/3 of the shape of the glass. She then folded it over the paper on the left-hand side over top of the painted glass so that the image transferred to the paper. She folded the paper back to its original positioned and continued on with the painting, stopping every 5 to 10 minutes and folding the paper over to capture the new image. She continued with this until the image on the left was similar to the one on the right, but different in its details as not all paint had transferred completely. This new image was something that you could not obtain through normal painting, but only through a transfer mono print.She stated that you could add further detail to the transferred image afterwards. The last image was of the piece of glass which she used to transfer the image to the paper.