ONLY ONE

MONPRINTING

ADVANCED 2-D ART

glass or acrylic plates & oil based printing ink

The students LOVE this monprint unit.

They learn several cool techniques to produce unique,

 one of a kind pieces.

Senior Elias Rodriquez choose Landscape as his subject matter for all of his pieces.

In this first photo we are seeing the most difficult technique to master called Traced.

Then in the same photo right below is it's ghost.

I adore how moody his pieces all turned out.

This one reminds me of the famous artist Edward Hopper's House on the Railroad. 

This next technique is called Additive with it's ghost.

And in this next one we have the Silhouette process and it's super cool ghost.

But it was this one by Elias that really touched my heart.

This was his combo. piece where he combined all the techniques.

Love the movement he captured along with the subtle colorings.

Talk about moody!

These next couple were done by senior Jonathan Hsu.

What a wonderful little person he has created.

Looks like someone out of the past.

This is the ghost of his traced.

A lot of times the actual traced does not turn out well,

but usually the ghost will.

These two remind me of how a portrait of Michael Jackson might look.

The one on the right is his Additive and the left is his ghost.

If you ever get a chance to take a printmaking class,

I highly recommend it.

And this is only the tip of the iceberg.

There is so much more!

Feeling Free to be Non-Objective

MONOPRINTING

ADVANCED 2-D ART

oil based printing ink on various papers

Monoprinting is a super fun assignment which gives the kids a new freedom to explore abstract and non-objective drawing in a printmaking medium.

I cover traced, reductive, additive and silhouette techniques plus we pick up all those ghosts left behind on the plate. 

Fullerton base mixed media artist Mary Zarbano turned me onto monoprinting when she visited my school in the 1980's to give a demonstration to my drawing/painting kids.

She brought so much joy into each of her pieces and worked so spontaneously that I knew my students would love the process.

It's been in my curriculum ever since.

Both seniors, Megan Yeu and Jarick Simbol, really got into the process.

In fact, they made so many prints so quickly that we had to string a line in the kiln room to dry them out (below).

Above are all eleven prints that each one of them had to turn in.

Megan's are the top ones and Jarick's the two bottom lines.

Above is Megan's traced traced print, and below are two of her silhouettes.

Below are Jarick's traced and ghost of traced.

I'm so glad both of these young ones got to experience this medium before they graduated.