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Reductive Monotype Inspired

While I don't have the proper paints for this, I was impatient and wanted to experiment with what I have at hand, which is water based ink, watercolours and a white gouache.

 

The ink didn't work well, I believe it got absorbed into the paper and all of the details that I lifted, got lost. 

Next I mixed some English red (love that colour!) with a white gouache and it turned a very beautiful warm colour. I even tried some ombre effect by placing the white gouache first and then adding watercolour pigment with very little water at the very bottom and working it upwards with my brush. I went back and forth a few times, but I don't believe it's very visible in the final result - watercolour pigment is known to move around.

Anyway, with adding very little water to the mixture I was able to get a paste-like consistency and lift it using the techniques demonstrated in the class - zig-zag lidting motion, crumpled paper towel and to lesser extent - the brush marks. I was able to successfully transfer on smooth printer paper, as demonstrated in the class.

The results are quite abstract, and I believe it's due to the different medium that I used. I finished one up with some black fine liner doodles, and the other with my brush that had some of the paint mixture left in it and I left the third one just smooshed and as abstract as it imprinted.

This technique was so much fun to try out, and I would definitely be sourcing the proper materials and try again!

 

Reductive Monotype Inspired - image 1 - student projectReductive Monotype Inspired - image 2 - student project

Reductive Monotype Inspired - image 3 - student project