spoons mountain

watercolor monotype on arches printmaking paper, image size 14 x 11.4 cm on paper size 35.8 x 28.4 (above image is cropped, so you would see more white space around the image in the actual print), 1997

Watercolor image was first painted on printable/paintable acetate [wet-media acetate] and then when it is dry, it is printed on slightly damp printmaking paper, as what you see here.

pins

monotype with embossment on Somerset printmaking paper, 13" x 21.5", 1998

Some close-ups:



Safety pins were taped onto a clear sheet of acetate, then painted with watercolor (where you see the dotted line running across is where the tape was holding the pins in place).

When the watercolor wash is good and dried, the whole thing (with the pins and all) is then printed on slightly damped printmaking paper (to pick up the watercolor paint) on the etching press. The pressure of the press creates a pretty clear embossment of the safety pins, not sure if you could tell from these images though.

Here is the back of the print, showing the embossment of the pins on the paper a little better:

ignu vii

monotype on printmaking paper, 13.5" x 18", part of a collaborative series with Kham Saybanha, based on Allen Ginsberg's poem Ignu.