Monoprints

Heart Guitar, LE

Nickel Squash Harp, LE

Harvester, LE

Apollo by Jane Pack

LE

LE

LE

Here are some monoprints. It is an easy process inking up a plate and rubbing away those areas that you wish to be white.  Edgar Degas did quite a lot of these monoprints at a time when the printmaking process wasn't considered legitimate in its own right. Monoprints were considered pre-drawings to later finished works. There is a monoprint by Jane Pack and then the ballerina's are Degas' where you can really see the beauty of the rubbed surface.  I created the others. There is a fair amount of pressure with these prints but it is possible to create prints with less pressure. I will write some next week about ways to do printing without a press.

Have a great spring weekend.