Prints and Transfers

I teach a workshop called "Monoprint Collage" in which we explore gel plate printing techniques along with collage. For this spring's edition of Monoprint Collage, in Santa Fe, I will be including some deli paper transfer techniques. The video below shows just one of the fun ways you can use deli paper as a printing plate and transfer paper.

Deli paper blobs, scribbles

Deli paper blobs, graphite scribbles

Deli paper blobs, line transfers, scribbles

 

Deli paper blobs, scribbles, and collage

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Brush Giveaway Winner

So great to hear from all of you - your brush habits, other cleaning tips, etc.  Thanks for commenting and entering the brush giveaway drawing.  THE WINNER IS.... Diann S. Verrette, chosen at random.  Diann, it's your job now to e-mail me with your mailing address so I can send you the brushes.

Meanwhile, starting tomorrow I will be at a five-day intensive drawing workshop with North Country Studio Workshops, held at Bennington College.  The teacher is Leonard Ragouzeos.  Read about the workshop here.  Apparently, we'll be doing a lot with India ink on Yupo.  And two mornings of figure drawing.  This is definitely out of my comfort zone, and I am looking forward to the stretch.  I took an encaustic workshop at NCSW two years ago, which you can read about here.

And only because I can't do a post without a picture, I'll post a little progress from my series that started as deli paper prints:

This one I liked better a few stages back, but you can only go forward.  So I'll see where I can take it from here.

This one seems close to done, but we'll see.

Not much to say about this one... still in its adolescent awkward stage.

THANKS for visiting my blog!  And congratulations to Diann.  I'll include a little surprise with the brushes.

A Few Finished Pieces

Here are a few that came out of the Deli Paper Print series.  I have, at this point, about sixteen in the works, some of which will come to conclusion.

 

 

 The following are still works in process.

I am really excited about the layering, making marks, scraping back, painting over, creating texture.  I am not limiting these pieces to a specific set of techniques.  They did all happen to start with the deli paper prints, but could just as easily start somewhere else.  I'm really enjoying seeing how space develops: flat space and layers of depth.  These shapes keep emerging, so I'm going with it.  Shapes, scribbles, grids... 

Deli Paper Prints

Well, the finished pieces are layered and layered and layered, so they are more paintings than prints.  The deli paper prints are the beginnings.  THANKS to those of you who have sent, are sending, and have offered to send deli paper!!

Here is a short video on how I use deli paper to print, or transfer, paint.

First stage.  This is as far as I got in the video.

Then I scribbled all over it and applied more paint.

This version is almost done.

And here, I think it is done.  Not certain, but we'll let it sit a day and see.

This is the second piece that is finished, I think, out of the twelve in process.

 The rest of the pieces are in process, but some are almost finished, I think.  Sometimes the last 5% takes the longest, so I won't speak too soon.  They are all 12"x12" on printmaking paper.

Materials used in the video include:
Blick Matte Acrylics
Golden Open Gel
Deli Paper
See My Favorite Materials for papers and other paints.

We use this and other deli paper techniques in Layering with Transparencies workshop, which I'm offering this spring in Kansas City and Portland, Oregon.  Also in Big Fat Art: Big Fat Art Weekend in Vermont (March) is full, but I'm offering a four-day Big Fat Art workshop at Pacific Northwest Art School in September, and a one-day Big Fat Art workshop in Virginia Beach in October.

Deli Paper Exchange

FABULOUS!!!  I knew you'd come through. Here's what we'll do:

Terry, Candy, Pat, and Cynthia send me some deli paper, and I will send you each one of the pieces posted when I receive it.  Make sure to have your return address clearly marked on the package so I know where to send the art.  Then... if more than a week goes by and I haven't received the paper, I will contact Emie58 and/or cHim-prints.  In the meantime I'd love to send Emie58 and cHim-prints each a piece of Teeny Tiny Art as a thank you, if you'll send me your mailing addresses.  E-mail me here. THANKS!!!

Deli Paper

You know the stuff, right?  But you have to get it at a big box store like Costco, and there is no Costco here in beautiful downtown Rupert, VT, or even in the greater metropolitan area.  This is the stuff:

 

I could just order it from Amazon and pay an arm and a leg for it, but I know there are lots of you out there who buy it on a regular basis, and might want to share some with me.   I thought it would be more fun to offer an exchange for some deli paper.  So I'll trade original art for deli paper:

A

B

C

D

I have no idea how many of you would be interested in sending me deli paper, so how about this:  the first four people (maybe there are not four, I just don't know) who offer to send me 1000 sheets of deli paper, can each have one of the above pieces of original art.  If you are interested, please comment, give me your e-mail address, and specify your preference of pieces, A, B, C, or D.  My mailing address is on my website.

I use deli paper, along with other fun materials, in my Layering with Transparencies workshop as well as in Big Fat Art.  Once I get some, I'll make a video of a really simple, but cool technique used in this painting:

Big Fat Art using deli paper technique

If nobody sends me deli paper, I'll figure something out.  Who would have thought you could RUN OUT of deli paper?  Thanks in advance.

Texture on Deli Paper

I am done with Friday Drawing Practice for a while, but I thought I would continue to offer little tutorials on Fridays. It's fun, and it keeps me in practice.

Here is a technique for adding texture to paper. I use it in my Scribble Collage workshops, but just recently tried it on deli paper ("dry waxed paper"). Sue Bleiweiss does wonders on deli paper, which she demonstrated at our Sketch-In at Ink About It a few weeks ago. She gets hers at BJ's Wholesale Club for a lot cheaper than elsewhere, but they don't sell it online, so I did not include a link.



Here are a couple of samples of the deli paper with texture. The nice thing about this paper is that is is stronger than tissue paper, but it's almost as transparent.




Then I ripped them up and made a collage in my sketchbook:

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