Monotype Printmaking: Create Abstract Backgrounds For Drawing, Lettering, and Collage

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Free Online Course: Monotype Printmaking: Create Abstract Backgrounds For Drawing, Lettering, and Collage provided by Skillshare is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Monotype Printmaking: Create Abstract Backgrounds For Drawing, Lettering, and Collage is taught by Brandi Beckett.

Overview
  • In this class you’ll create a free-form and unique artwork using a monotype printmaking technique and hand drawn images.

    Monotype uses a non-absorbent surface as the “plate” which we add our inks or paints to. Pressing our paper onto the plate and lifting it back up gives us an abstract image which we use as inspiration for our next step.  This process encourages you to be brave and experiment, and to find beauty in the unexpected. The course is broken down into a few simple steps and there is plenty of room for improvisation!

    This class is ideal for aspiring and professional illustrators, artists, makers, or surface designers who want a new technique to jump start their creative projects. It’s especially useful when feeling indecisive, hesitant or creatively blocked. I really hope that this technique becomes a part of your art toolbox and that you pull it out for use whenever you feel stuck or afraid of the dreaded BLANK PAGE

Syllabus
    • Intro
    • Materials and Project
    • Playing with Monotype
    • Layering Colors
    • Finding an Image
    • Drawing
    • Other Ideas
    • Thank you