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Thursday, April 15, 2010

FINALLY!!!

It seems like it has been forever since I had any art time or even time to read other blogs!!  We've been in the new house for about a month now, and as you can imagine, it has been one thing after another. We've had 3 floods (all non related and in different parts of the house), issues with contractors, and I was almost flattened when a shelf of books in my new studio fell on me...(not just A shelf, but an entire section of shelves....)

My awesome new studio is still a ways from being complete, but about 75% of the stuff is in, the tables are set up and it is functional! On Tuesday, i locked myself away and worked on Michelle Ward's latest street team challenge--mono printing

Here is a group shot of my finished pages:
My favorites from the group--this one was a first pull after spraying the paint/glass with water:

I plan to go back over this one with a black marker to sketch in the details of the flowers and leaves--or maybe zentangle them!

                                      
this was a first pull of one mono-print, with a second pull of another manon-print layered over.


                                         
Another layered print--first layer was a second pull, and for the second layer, i layed the tyvek shaped that were thick with paint on the glass to pull a print of just them.
                                         
For this one, after pulling a second print, i painted flowers on the glass with black paint, sprayed it with water and pulled that as a print.

Definately a great technique with lots of possibilities! I'm curious to try it on fabric---Thanks for the inspiration, Michelle!

11 comments:

michelle ward said...

Maria - sorry to hear about the woes with floods and falling books! So glad to hear you found some *you* time to be creative. LOVE these prints. Wowee, they are all fantastic. A great series when shown all together. Thanks so much for sharing with the team and for explaining how you did some of them. Really fab shapes and colors too!!

nanke's stuff said...

Well, I'm glad to hear you survived all the difficulties! The monoprints are really cool - the colors, the textures, and the energy in them! nancy

Susan Sager Brown said...

Fantastic prints, thanks for showing and telling. I agree with nanke, great colors and energy!!xoSusan

Kelly said...

I love the monoprints! They are gorgeous. I may just have to do some experimenting myself. Thanks for sharing!

Mescrap said...

Fun-tastic play !! Love the image of the flower !!I experimenting it with different material, shall try with glass once i got one.

goudenregen said...

Love your prints! I think I am going to doodle on some of mine, they make great postcards that way. Hope the flooding in your house is stopped and all the shelves are fixed! Helen

jgr said...

These prints are awesome! Glad you survived the flood(s) and falling shelves--thank you for visiting me, too.

Chris said...

Love the graffiti feel of these and the pop of colors and shapes! Hope all goes well with your studio and the dry-out! Sorry about the falling bookshelf...be careful the books don't read YOU!

Regina said...

really like the designs you printed.. I agree, black lines would really make the one awesome!

Mona said...

You prints came out very well, I like the texture and the colors.

Building a house said...

God is really good you are all safe and OK. I really like your creation big time. Keep it up!