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Dear Hans,
Monotypes came from artists overpainting and getting too much linseed oil, etc. on the canvas. At the Royal Academy Schools, Fleetwood Walker and Middleton Todd taught us to lay a sheet of newspaper gently over our paintings, pressing lightly to soak it all up and give a fresh . The newspaper was then thrown away but if you do it with plain paper (I get a huge stack from my lovely local fish and chip shop) the result is a monotype. Do it again and you leave a ghost, where they can be worked on with charcoal, pastels, whatever you like. You can also roll black oil paint or printing ink all over the blank surface, take something sharp and draw into it, also my fingers as well, anything that comes to hand from brillo pads to feet and hands, its great fun.
I paint straight onto plain steel for monotypes, then print. Its great and very fast, as you must have found out Hans, artists have been doing it for hundreds of years, Rembrandt, Matisse, Chagall, degas. The best book I know is “The Painterly Print” published by the Metropolital Museum of Art in New York.
All the very best,
Kay
Dear Hans,
Thank you for your explanation (so quickly) of what I saw. Being a painter I am worried that sometimes what I think I see isn’t actual but that redbow is definitely printed on my mind and with clouds and that is why they are so wonderful, they move and change and disappear as did the Redbow. I wished I had photographed instead of my very quickly dome monotype. Which of course is the other way round of what I actually so because it is a print, an oil painting on a piece of tin and then a piece of paper put over it and printed. It was the quickest think I could do because my camera battery had run out.
Here in Hampstead, which is one of the highest points in London, this time of the year is wonderful for clouds as Pinney says a blue sky is lovely but in my words boring. All the best to you throut this lovely coming Autumn and that you again for putting my mind at rest.
I am dyslexic so my husband does all this typing, he says he was unable to upload a jpg of the monotype on the forum page because it was too large but sent it to Sheena to put on the gallery.
All the best again,
Kay
Dear members,
The Cloudspotters Guide is my bible. I have given it away to so many friends, gardeners and artists and now bought a nrew one with none of my turned pages and scribbles on it.
You so kindly put my monotype of a “Rainbow” of one colour, orangy pink with dark sky belowand 3 black Japanese style blops of clouds.
I have looked in my Bible but find no explanation for a one colour rainbow, I am in London and Sheena in Somerset says she saw it.
One cannot be a detective in these matters, as our evidence disappears before our eyes wonderfully.
Has anyone any ideas or knowledge to convey.
Very best wishes to all,
Kay Gallwey
