More monotypes

I posted previously about my new direction in doing monotypes during figure drawing at my studio on Tuesdays. They have been coming along nicely since my first experimentation with them. 

I almost scrapped this one, but pushed through and finished this drawing.  This model was great with his leather jacket and floppy hat.

This is the latest monotype from last week.  The model wore a great scarf which I ended up not putting in the drawing.  Both of them had medium length shaggy hair!

Tomorrow will be another drawing session.  I look forward to experimenting more with monotype and figure drawing.  I have some ideas that I want to try with the ghost print.

Falling for new directions

I saw a post on the blog, The Crafts Dept. from Martha Stewart Living, that showed how they changed their blog header according to the seasons, so I decided to change mine to a more seasonally appropriate image.  I used double stick tape to hold some leaves in place, and printed my header wood block on them.  What do you think?

For the past few weeks since I've been going to figure drawing next door at my studio on Tuesday mornings. It's taken me a while to get warmed up again, and feeling somewhat happy with my sketches.  Today I tried my hand at figure drawing with monotype.  I inked up a piece of plexi-glass and sketched the model's hand into the ink with q-tips.  Later I remembered that I had blender stumps for charcoal drawing that worked much better to draw into the ink with.

After the figure drawing session, I soaked some paper, and printed the plates in the press.  This was the last sketch, and the most successful one for the day.  Not bad for a first try. It still feels a little awkward and stiff for me, the fingers should "dangle" a little more  gracefully. I'm still getting the hang of this new method working by pushing around the ink with blender stumps and q-tips. Practice makes perfect right?