Yesterday evening was the launch of the 15 Hundred Lives group show which features 14 of my monotypes and some of my sketchbooks. I was lucky enough to sell one. WOOHOO!!!! It’s called AlCefn and it’s a large monotype, about 50 x 80 cms which started out as a life drawing in chalk and charcoal onto brown wrapping paper. I made a tracing and reversed it onto a light box and, using a perspex sheet inked up in yellow oil pigment, I drew into it with cotton buds (Q Tips), rags, coctail sticks and hoghair brushes, put a sheet of BFK Rives 250 gsm paper on top and put it through the Radcliffe Press at Swansea Print Workshop, giving me a yellow print. Then I cleaned the persepx, coated it thinly in red pigment and repeated the drawing stage, overprinting the red plate onto the yellow print on paper. Finally I did the same with blue.
The overlay of the three colours gives a huge range of hues from a rich, velvety, warm black through all the primary, secondary and tertiaries to white. Magic!
I’ll be running a one-day course in the technique later this month at Swansea Print Workshop, if anyone fancies learning how to do it. Either contact the print workshop by phone or email or get in touch with me. It’s a great technique for artists who draw. 🙂
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Great news Rosie, always good to sell some work and buy some new materials:)
Thanks Veronica. I’ve been selling a fair bit lately – nice to have some pennies coming in 🙂
Congratulations. This is a really beautiful piece of art. Thanks for explaining a little bit about the technique. Selling is always fun. 🙂
Thank you. I love this technique. Degas and Monet used it a lot, though not with perspex
Congratulations…nothing better than selling a piece of one’s work. They got a good one!
Thanks. It’s one of my favourites so it’s hard to let go
It’s so marvellous to have your work appreciated.. well done indded Rosie 😀
Thank you – it validates what we do as artists 🙂
How many paintings did van Gogh sell in his lifetime? How many works has Rosie sold? Congrats!
haha good point, thanks 🙂
Good point or good print? 🙂
Well done on the sale. The first of many I hope
I hope so too 🙂
Good news, Rosie. 🙂
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A lovely piece. Congratulations on the sale.
Thank you, one of my favourites 🙂
Awesome news, great piece and great to hear you sold it too!
Thanks, it was a good night
Well done 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Congrats Rosie! Sales are the best.
Wish I lived in your area to take the workshop. Looks like fun!
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It’s such a boost when you sell something 🙂