Monoprints, the City (2)

I made some more monoprints this week at East London Printmakers.

These were made using the technique demonstrated by Fiona Fouhy, which I learned on a course in September. See this post.

Here are city views.

  • “The East end”
  • “Looking out of the office window, Post-It notes”
  • “Looking out of the office window, sloping roof.”
City monoprints, 12″ x 9″

These are made by a “reduction process”. Each is a unique print (for sale!).

Here are some snapshots from the process.

  • Etching ink and extender.
  • Roll out the ink.
  • Roll the ink on the plate and print. It makes a black rectangle, and leaves mid-tone on the plate.
  • Roll tower blocks onto the plate.
  • The ink is dark against the mid-tone on the plate.
  • Scrape off ink to make the windows.
  • This is a picture of the plate. Now print it again.
  • Here is the plate . Now I can roll on some more ink.
  • I rolled on the sloping roof.
  • Here is the final print.
  • Here’s the plate after the final print.

Here are some “outtakes”: prints produced during the process. All are on cotton rag paper except one which is on newsprint.

  • Reflected light
  • Towers at night
  • East end in fog
  • Fences and glow
  • Towers that float.
    (newsprint)
  • From the window, rain
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Author: Jane

Urban sketcher, coastal artist, swimmer.

4 thoughts on “Monoprints, the City (2)”

    1. Hello Debbie – thank you! I’m so glad you found the post interesting. I love this process. It is somehow liberating that you don’t really have a lot of control of the image, and but that you can gradually change and shift it. Also, compared to etching, it’s really quick!
      I hope you enjoy the process. Thanks for your comment.

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