Also, one of my long-term goals has been to create an easily affordable body of work so that my friends can begin art collections of their own. Early on I realized that the simpler means are a most immediate way to inform my more involved ideas. Over the years I have used printmaking in many forms to inspire my more involved work in oil painting. In the lower left one can see the pressure adjustment nob that adjusts the pressure of the press’s roller on the press bed. Wool protective blankets are they laid over the paper, tucking it in so to speak just before the artist hand cranks the bed between the roller bars in the same fashion as the old washing machines of the 1930’s that had ringers on them. Once the plate is ready to print, it is laid on the bed of the press and overlayed with a pristine sheet of printmaking paper. Roger Goldenberg is “pulling” a monotype print from the aluminum plate that holds his painted design. Seen to the right of the plate is a finished print. I prefer to create my images on aluminum plates because they are durable and eventually they can be recycled. In the photo below one can see a large aluminum plate. They are less stiff, and though very tacky, they can be thinned to the consistency of oil paint.
I worked with these for a number of years until another printmaker introduced me to etching ink in TUBES. He suggested that the inks are more brilliant and more archival, having a lower oil content and no other binders, fillers or drying agents. I was encouraged by a colleague who is a master printmaker to use lithographer’s ink instead. Monotype printmaking process is the simplest of the printing processes and for me using the most familiar tools and materials made the most sense.
#Momotype printmaking professional
I now live in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.Originally I used professional quality oil paints because they were on hand and made it easy to enjoy the immediacy the monotype. This post was created at my former studio in CT. I think there is nothing better to do in the winter than to make art. The sun has decided to show itself for a bit on this cold January day. If I’m happy with the way it’s looking, I can pull it off all the way. If it hasn’t, I may decide to put it through again or add more layers of paint or stencils and then put it through again. I pull up the print, starting with one corner to check that enough ink/paint has transferred from the plate onto the printing paper. Then I crank it through the press rollers. Here is how it looks before it’s been put through. Then I cover everything with the press blankets and use the hand crank to roll the printing plate and paper through the press. I also adjust the pressure on the rollers on the press. Monotype printmaking is quick and satisfying. The fact that you can pull out a plate, roll some ink on it, and start carving light into the image with a pencil eraser always delights me.
#Momotype printmaking full
Then I’m ready for the press, I cut paper to use for a registration under the plate so the print is positioned where I want it. I’ve been making painterly monotypes of one sort or another for 15 years, and they are still full of surprises. Then I press out the excess water between old towels which don’t leave lint on the paper. In the meantime, I have been soaking my paper in a tray of water until it is holding enough water in it.
Sometimes you don’t like the print, so you have to wipe it off and start over.īefore I go to the press, I pull off any stencils that I want, which reveals more variations in color value that may or may not be hidden underneath of them. What is fun about monotype printing is that you never have complete control over the final outcome. This decision is often a guess based on experience. I apply thin layers of ink or paint onto the plate, playing with layers of stencils until I have what seems to be a good starting layer to put through the press. I use a piece of plexiglass or glass for my plate. Then I cut out my stencils using flexible, soft sheets of plastic, like cut-up plastic file folders. Choosing color depends on my mood or the idea I have in my head.
#Momotype printmaking series
This is a series of photos demonstrating the process of creating a monotype using hand-cut stencils.įirst I start with my palette of colors.
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