Playing With Monotypes

Last month I went to an Akua Inks demonstration at Colorest Art Supplies in Red Bank with my daughter.  We got to play with the inks and make our own monotype print.  We started by painting on an acetate tile making sure the paint wasn't too thick and that the print would be the reverse of what was on the acetate.

I love to work in both traditional and digital methods and decided the monotype would probably look really cool if I repeated the pattern so it could be used in other pieces of work and printed as a photograph for reproduction purposes.

The pattern that was created in the center looks like a little martian according to my daughter...I tend to agree.  The possibilities are endless when combining the old school techniques with the diversity of current technological advances that are emerging every day.

 I needed a design for a DVD and thought I could take a drawing and merge it with Illustrator to create something different that you wouldn't be able to achieve with just the computer or manual processes alone.

This is the resulting image that I decided looked cool with my drawing and a gradient overlay.

        Just another day of Loving Every Minute Lost In Art!