Monday, March 03, 2008

Monotypes

Hi again, it seems that slowly by surely I am indeed starting to create a bit more art again. Over the last 2 weeks I spent a lot of time working with letterpress. Most of this was spent sorting type (a very meditative task I found even if most people would consider it mindnumbing. But when you are looking for a "mindfulness" exercise there is probably very little that can beat that). I didn't print much yet but now we have several drawers of nicely sorted and cleaned type :)

Then I decided to start a series of monotypes. Monotypes can be relatively short-term projects. If you work only in one color and really mostly play around you can do a small series in 1 1/2 - 2 hours which is just perfect (including cleanup). So here are a few samples of some of these monotypes without any further comments. Enjoy.