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Color Monotype Print without a Press

Color Monotype Print without a Press Making a color monotype print without a press is officially addictive. (You can see in the two previous posts

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Monotype Print in Layered Colors without a Press

Monotype Print in Layered Colors without a Press Creating monotype prints in layered colors without a press began as a demo for my group on

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Color Monotype Portrait Printed without a Press

Color Monotype Portrait Printed without a Press This week in my Mastrius group, I demo’d an approach to making color monotype portrait prints without the

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Collagraph using Recycled Cardboard Printed Intaglio Style without a Press

Collagraph using Recycled Cardboard Printed Intaglio Style without a Press While we were all staying in, I posted a series of printmaking experiments using common

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Color Landscape Light Field Monotype Print

Color Landscape Light Field Monotype Print Here is a quick video demo (below) to show you the steps to make a full color landscape light

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A New Adventure: Artist Mentorship

A New Adventure: Artist Mentorship I’m pleased to share that I’m offering artist mentorships through Mastrius.com. Mastrius helps motivated artists accelerate their creative journey by

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Adjusting Watercolor Paintings with Colored Pencils

Adjusting Watercolor Paintings with Colored Pencils Colored pencils can transform a watercolor that missed the mark, got a little muddy, or craves a bit of

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Pencil Sketching Practice

Pencil Sketching Practice Pencil Sketching Practice has been rhapsodized for eons. But that doesn’t mean we all commit to a regular habit of sketching (right?)

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Gelli Plate Monotype Portrait Print

Gelli Plate Monotype Portrait Print Experiments with gelli plate monotype portrait prints have been underway in my studio, and they are FUN! The first test

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Figurative Watercolors – Sand Castle Princess

Figurative Watercolors – Sand Castle Princess I took a pause from my fun Mokulito printmaking experiments to work on this small watercolor of a sand

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mokulito wood litho print of a cat next to a vase of flowers

Wood Lithography (Mokulito) Prints with Watercolor

Wood Lithography (Mokulito) Prints with Watercolor I’ve been experimenting with the use of watercolor to print full-color backgrounds on mokulito (wood lithography) prints. Applying tube

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Color Tetrapak Collagraph Print

Color Tetra Pak Collagraph Print I veered off the Mokulito (Wood Litho) printmaking trail to take a little hike with Tetra Pak prints this week.

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mokulito print of the Anacapa Island sea arch

Wood Lithography (Mokulito) Printmaking – Anacapa Island Arch

Wood Lithography (Mokulito) Printmaking – Anacapa Island Arch Experimenting with Wood Lithography (Mokulito) Printmaking continues in my studio. I really appreciate all the feedback and

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Mokulito (Wood Lithography) Printmaking

Mokulito (Wood Lithography) Printmaking Printmaking mash-ups appeal to my experiment-loving, nerd-artist’s heart. In a previous series of blog posts this season (like this cat and

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Trace monotype print of a girl with read hair and a green shirt on

Trace Monotype and Drawing Transfer Methods

What is a Trace Monotype Print? Trace monotype is a form of printmaking created by drawing on a sheet of paper thats been laid on

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a collagraph print of a bay window surrounded by books, with a figure lounging with a cat and a book on the sill

Carborundum Collagraph Print

Carborundum Collagraph Print This carborundum collagraph print was made with mat board, acrylic gloss, and carborundum (fine sandpaper grit). The plate was inked and wiped

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reduction linocut with drypoint etching print combination of a tuxedo cat and a vase of tulips

Print Day in May Reduction Linocut and Drypoint Combo

Print Day in May Reduction Linocut and Drypoint Combo Tuxedo Corsage is a Reduction Linocut and Drypoint print combo still life of my studio pal

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a linocut and drypoint of a kitchen sink near a door and a washing machine

Mixing Relief and Intaglio Printmaking Methods

Mixing Relief and Intaglio Printmaking Methods This mix of relief and intaglio printmaking methods was the second one I worked on last Fall. The project

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Drypoint Etching and Relief Print Mash Up

Drypoint Etching and Relief Print Mash Up This is my fourth mash-up of reduction linocut print and dry point etching. I worked on it intermittently

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Making Art to Manage Loss and Grief

Making Art to Manage Grief After a four-year battle with cancer, my beautiful, talented, kind stepdaughter – and Muse – Melanie Ham died a few

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linocut and drypoint etching of a girl holding a cat

Mixed Printmaking – Color Linocut and Drypoint Engraving

Mixed Printmaking – Color Linocut and Drypoint Engraving This is the third in a series of posts showing methods to make mixed printmaking mashups. (You

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linocut and drypoint etching art print of a yellow chair near a window and a table with perfume bottles on it

Linocut Print and Drypoint Etching – Printmaking Mashup

Linocut Print and Drypoint Etching – Printmaking Mashup In the last post – I dabbled with an experimental printmaking mash-up. For that still life print,

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drypoint and linocut print still life in color of a plate with apples and cheese and crackers

Reduction Linocut and Drypoint Print Mix

Reduction Linocut and Drypoint Print Mix Snacking Geometry is a Reduction Linocut and Drypoint print still life, created for a print exchange. Printmakers Connect is

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color collagraph print of a nude in a bathtub

Nude Figurative Portrait Collagraph Print

Nude Figurative Portrait Collagraph Print This nude figurative collagraph print was part of a series of carborundum tests I experimented with over the summer. More

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a watercolor portrait of a couple, seated on a couch, reading a book

Watercolor Portrait Painting

Painting Portraits in Watercolor Painting portraits in watercolor is ambitious. Figurative watercolors are some of my favorite subjects to paint, but they’re never easy (for

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Watercolor Painting Travel Kit

Traveling with Watercolors Have you assembled a watercolor painting travel kit to take with you, outside your usual painting space? Here are some tips to

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Still Life Watercolors – Painting Larger Using a Grid Drawing System

Still Life Watercolor Ideas, and the Grid System Several times a year, I set up still life vignettes to photograph and use as reference material

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Monotype Printing without a Press

How to Print a Monotype without a Press Monotype printmaking is the “painterly print” option. This printmaking process is accessible to everyone, and it doesn’t

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Monotype Print Still Life Art – adding Colored Pencil to your Print

Monotype Print Still Life – adding Colored Pencil to your Art I spent a foggy afternoon transferring printmaking inks from leaky containers to new ones,

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Make an Intaglio Drypoint Print from Recycled Paper Cartons

Making an Intaglio Drypoint Print from Recycled Paper Cartons While walking a freshly emptied carton of frozen Mango & Cream bars to the recycling bin,

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