Monoprinting For Calligraphers

The next post shows photos from a workshop taught by Luce Zolna this past weekend called Monoprinting for Calligraphers. We used water based printers ink and rollers and printed on paper that was similar to rice paper. Printing with the botanicals was much fun!  One photo shows the little book I put together with some of the papers I made. And one is Luce holding up a texture plate made of various papers, corregated cardboard, plastic, etc. I'll post more photos later.

Much Stress

Finally things have calmed down...Visited my Mom in NC and she's going to move closer to my sister.  Her health has been failing.
And when I got back, my daughter's sprained ankle which had developed an infection, didn't improve so she went into the hospital for antibiotics via IV.  Googled that and it doesn't say that can happen with a sprained ankle!

 Working on two collages in April's class.  I'm going to miss another class so I decided to try to finish one.   I wanted a transfer or something to have a center of interest.  The first photo is just the layout.  In the end I darkened the bottom as it looked too busy.  The gestural writing is from a workshop and I copied it on sheer paper.

 This is another background I'm trying to tie together to finish it off. The handmade paper will fade into the background so I'm not sure if it will do what I want- but I might put it down on the brown painted paper I found (see right side).

 Pictures from Jacqueline Sullivan's workshop- hope I can remember who the artists were- they are all so beautiful!!!!!!!  I know I missed some- thought I had taken photos of all of them!
 This one is by Kathy Mandell

 Valerie's

 Luce's

 Linda H.

 Lisa's

 April's

 Bernie's

 Ellen's

 Joanna's

 Kate's

 Oh- mine lopsided

 ?Alexis?

 Joanna's again

 ? Rita's

 A repeat but showing the beginning stage of Linda H's

Bernie's sister's -Mary's

Jacqueline Sullivan's workshop--- I tried to take photos as Jacqueline worked on her piece so you can see how it evolved

My painting from Jacqueline Sullivan's workshop- out of order- the middle one shows the lettering that was put on first.  It was acrylic paint and supposed to be permanent, but some washed off mainly at the top.  The we added paint to obscure some of the lettering as it was supposed to be "a part" of the painting which I liked but would like to have had more show up.  The larger quote was put on and then the redish paint added in the counters to finish it -and the nice stencil added more interest too.