The lovely Griffin etching press that I was able to buy years ago (with a professional development grant while teaching ) has been patiently waiting in my basement studio for me to return.
This past week, I had to crank out an edition of 15 prints for a show/print exchange at Pierce College in Tacoma, WA. I had been meaning to get back to this, but as so often happens, a deadline does the trick.
So… now the ice has been broken and I can keep at it during the summer.
Making a ‘series’ of monotypes is a bit of a contradiction, since each print is unique and can’t be replicated. What we’re talking about is making 15 individual paintings and then squashing them one by one onto dampened paper under pressure. The other exciting part of this is that I will get 13 random little prints sent back to me. What a great idea, and only possible when working in this medium.
After this brief interlude, I’ll get back to prepping for the 2-day studio tour in June. Maybe do some prints to expand on the ideas for the new series of grass/weed imagery. It was a very nice interlude, indeed.
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Awesome, great to see you using that beautiful press! Glad you got the prints done for the exchange, will be fun to see what little prints you get in return.