Spring Blooms

"Spring Blooms"

This acrylic monotype was created during a beautiful spring moment.  It could be viewed horizontally as well as vertically.  Soft warm beige, rustic reds, and bright yellow contrast with one another to suggest what spring blooms give us--a happy feeling with a softness that to me says "spring."

The surface is firm, plastic-like created by the strong bond of the Golden Fluid acrylics to the high quality printmaking paper.  Each of these paintings are one-of-a-kind that can't be copied.  The size of the image is 8" x 10".

The challenge for me, as the artist, is to imagine what will happen as I lay down paint then paint over it with more and more layers.  The first layer is what ends up on top as the acrylic painted is transferred to the paper.  It is all rather unpredictable yet exciting to make.

Acrylic Monotype--Salsa

Acrylic Monotype--"Salsa"

This image begins a new series of art.  Generated by some great instruction, I've started making these monotypes using Golden Fluid Acrylics.  Each is painted onto a thin plastic film, dried and then using another acrylic product called gel medium, it is transferred to paper.  

The results are not entirely predictable because the transfer puts the first layer of paint onto the top of the finished print.  But this is not what the artists sees.  Planning along with spontaneity are needed.

This painting is small--about 4" x 4" on a 8" square heavy weight paper.