An introduction to monotype

Event information

There are many different ways of creating a monotype, in this 4 hour workshop we will look at 2 of them, working with one colour (fabulous Prussian Blue) & a hand bamboo burnisher. There’s no need for a printing press.

You will leave with the understanding of materials & transferable skills you need to monotype easily in your 'kitchen studio' at home.

- 1: Monochrome Linear Monotypes - Placing Paper on an Inked up Slab and Drawing on the Reverse
- 2: Painterly Monotypes – Painting the Image on the Slab

Mono printing/ monotype is very a playful process that’s loose & fun! No previous experience is necessary other than a disposition set to 'play'.

Format of the work shop:-
- Arrive and introductions, to each other and to monotype!
- 'Monochrome Linear Monotypes'
- Placing Paper on an Inked up Slab and Drawing on the Reverse, building up confidence & understanding through line, play & experimenting.
- Quick break for lunch, have a look at your creations & others!
- "Painterly Monotypes' –
- Painting the Image on the Slab, using mark making from the morning, build up a library of printing imagery, techniques & visual vocabulary to put into play with a ainterly Monotype Seascape.
- Tidy up, and then a collective look and head home happy with many prints and a head full of ideas!

Equipment and reference materials
Hannah will bring paper, ink etc. The paper we will be working on is mostly newsprint as the emphasis is on play, not aiming for finished masterpieces, just an introduction to what is possible.

Equipment
Hannah will bring all equipment needed, but if participants could bring old clothes /apron to wear and any Mark making tools - anything and everything they can think of! Old t-shirts, sponges, bbq sticks, cotton buds, newspaper, credit cards; anything that can make a mark or leave a texture.

Hannah will also bring some mark making bits and bobs. If you’d like, bring a variety of images to work from in the afternoon…. landscapes/sea scapes/ animals/flowers.
The main focus of the workshop is in playing, exploring marks, tone and texture.