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Monotype: First Dust of Snow
Friday, October 3, 2014 15:16
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| First Dusting of Snow 3.5 x 6.75 dark field monotype with colored pencil |
This is a dark-field monotype, pulled from a tiny zinc plate I’ve had for a decade. (Process shots start at the bottom of this post.) The reference photo was one of hundreds in my grandfather’s photo box, which was full of tiny 2.5 x 3.25 inch black and white snap shots taken with a 2-A Folding Autographic Brownie camera in and around Connecticut in the mid 1920′s.
Now that it’s October, I’m in the mood for some winter & snow scenes. Here in Southern California, the predicted temperature is 90 degrees today with high wind; fire weather.
First Dusting of Snow is in my Etsy Shop.
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| Little art. |
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| The still-wet pigment is pressed against paper to transfer the image. If there is enough ink left on the plate, ghost prints can be pulled as well. These are fainter versions than the monotype, but they serve as lovely under-paintings for added media like pastel, pencil and paint, etc. One monotype and two ghost prints were pulled before I cleaned the plate to make something else. |
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| While the ink is still wet, an image is lifted from the pigment in a subtractive process, using blending stubs, finger tips, paper towels and q-tips, etc. |
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| Etching ink is rolled onto a plate (zinc, copper or plexi) |
Art Quote
I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day, on a regular basis…. I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.
~Vincent Van Gogh
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