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From the lens Monotype printmaking - collecting and making of unique artwork.
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Titia
May 2, 2012 @ 4:40 am | delete
- Your monotypes are beautiful. I like your art work a lot, reminds me of my dad's work. I need a second life in order to do all the things I would like to learn and do. Thanks for sharing.
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Brian Eckert
Dec 8, 2011 @ 4:36 pm | delete
- Martin
Do you have a video on how you produce your trace monotypes?
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EditionH
Dec 9, 2011 @ 1:43 am | delete
- Hello Brian,
I have made no video yet, but I know I should have one. The simplicity of the process would be so much easier to understand. I will try to do one with my camera over the weekend.
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Brian Eckert
Dec 9, 2011 @ 10:40 am | delete
- Thanks Martin
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EditionH
Dec 18, 2011 @ 2:50 am | delete
- Hello Brian , as to the paper I use a 170 gr/sqm drawing paper,acid free. The paper has an "open surface" ,it curls a bit if I use it for water color. But for charcoal or pencil it is great. Water color papers do not work with this process from my experience as too much pressure is needed to transfer oil color. I would be pleased to send you some sample sheets in an envelope. Just send me a mail via contact button with your address. Or use the comment box. I will not publish the comment of course.
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Brian Eckert
Dec 16, 2011 @ 2:05 pm | delete
- Thanks again for the video of the trace process. You make it look easy.
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EditionH
Dec 16, 2011 @ 4:25 pm | delete
- Hello Brian, it is indeed very easy. One can take the time you need to correct mistakes, wipe out etc.. Also you can add step by step if you prefer to work on small areas. The most important thing is the paper I think, it has to take the color easy.
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sarahrk
Nov 30, 2011 @ 10:31 pm | delete
- This is all so interesting. I wish I was more creative.
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Kris
Nov 29, 2011 @ 12:25 pm | delete
- When you make your monotypes on paper, doesn't the oil paint degrade the paper--without a sizing or a gesso? I always thought that oil on paper wasn't "archival" but would like to experiment with the process.
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EditionH
Nov 29, 2011 @ 2:03 pm | delete
- Hi Chris,thank you for your interest. Yes you are right.
The drying oil color i.e. the oxydizing oil is changing the liquid oil color to a firm layer by binding oxygen. Later this "burning" continues over decades and the color film which gained weight by taking on oxygen will loose weight by oxidative cleavage of carbon dioxide, acetic and formic acids which are certainly not improving the paper quality.
On the other hand the papers we use today are much better than those which were used 20 years ago, not to speak of those which were produced even earlier. The papers I buy are all acid free and usually they have also some buffer capacity i.e. they are produced with a slight surplus of calcium carbonate.
But in the end the acid by-products of drying oil colors will do the same damage on the paper over time as alum does on papers that were produced on an acidic basis since the beginning of the 19th century.Those papers, now 150-200 years old, are falling apart.
I do expect that my monotypes will sustain at least a similar time span of 200 years.Probably they will last longer because the paper is thicker than book paper. My monotypes usually have only a very thin color film.But the amount of bleached linseed oil I use varies a lot. Especially on my Piranesi Paraphrases I use a lot to get that atmosphere of decay and I use the bleeding of the
oil with purpose.
As you said it is preferred to prime the paper i.e. to protect it from the oil especially when you do paintings with thicker layers of colors. But from my experience the process I apply only works with a paper that has an open surface and is able to take the oil color easily.
You might want to avoid linseed oil as thinner by using balsam turpentine oil that evaporates completely and leaves only the thin oil colour film on the paper.
I stopped use of the thinner because of health/safety issues. Thinning the oil color to "water colour" consistency will expose you to substantial amounts of thinner in the breathing air. A breathing mask is absolutely essential to my opinion. But the studio will be contaminated. I noticed that our closed waste bin smelled for days after I had disposed my brush cleaning tissues in it.
Please check the info on the danger of spontaneous combustion of rags or papers with linseed oil and other thinners on the net before you start your experiments.
If you would like to get a sample of the paper I use I will be happy to post you a couple of A4 sheets for testing.
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EMangl
Nov 16, 2011 @ 4:59 am | delete
- keine fragen :-)
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Aug 11, 2011 @ 11:23 am | delete
- Great lens. I would love to explore monotype printmaking. Thanks for the information, examples, and resources. Appreciated!
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Brian Holden, www.myprintmakingjourney.blogspot.com
Apr 17, 2011 @ 9:19 pm | delete
- Greetings Martin
It has been quite a while since we swapped prints via WetCanvas exchange for printmaking. I have recently begun to explore monotype printmaking and one of the influences was that wonderful impressionistic study of Maulbronn you did that I have in my collection. What a great resource you have put together here in Squidoo. I have to thank Ploverwing (Amie Roman) for providing a link to this. I also am very impressed with Edition Hannruck site...beautiful work as well. Cheers!
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EditionH
Nov 29, 2011 @ 2:16 pm | delete
- Hello Brian,
how could I neglect and not see your comment. I am so sorry. Wet Canvas is a long time back but as I type this I remember the print exchange and I found your tree print on silver ground!
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Ronelle
Apr 11, 2011 @ 6:27 am | delete
- Excellent MArtin!
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UKGhostwriter
Mar 16, 2011 @ 7:12 pm | delete
- what a fantastic lens!!
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Ruby
Feb 8, 2011 @ 11:57 am | delete
- I love your work! I'm a novice but I absolutely love printmaking and have been unstoppable since I took my first class in it.
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EditionH
Feb 8, 2011 @ 12:49 pm | delete
- Thank you for your comment. Unstoppable sounds great, like a lot of enthusiasm ! :).
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makingamark
Jan 17, 2011 @ 1:07 pm | delete
- This is a really excellent lens Martin.
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WildFacesGallery
Nov 16, 2010 @ 11:37 am | delete
- Really nicely done. You've made the process easy to understand. I haven't done any monotype printmaking in years. But I always enjoyed it.
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