Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Watercolour Monoprints

Slightly different method with these. They have to dry first on the acetate, then they are rolled through the press using a nice absorbent paper that has been soaked for 20 minutes or more. Due to the water absorbed into the paper the pigment is reactivated and transferred onto the paper. Some people use gum arabic to aid the transfer, but I haven't tried this yet myself.

Here are a few of my better ones:








No comments:

Post a Comment