I have been paint for awhile but love most arts. With school last year, I really didn't have time to paint with planning for classes. I had to learn the Mac, Photoshop, Illustrator, Digital Art etc. I did silk screen printing and linoleum cuts with some students. It was hard watching them print and not being able to do you own art.
I do like painting. I have worked for years working on perfecting my art. I have different types of paint and have tried different surfaces. I have tried the plein air painting and like doing it at my leisure but get stressed when it is for a contest. If I want to paint other than in my studio it involves a packing of bags of equipment.
After painting for awhile and also teaching printmaking at school, my desire was to do printmaking for awhile. I like the look of the prints, that sometimes you can do all the work and have more than one, and that you can use your painting techiques to do mono prints. The more that I have gotten into printmaking this summer, the more I see how creative and flexible it is with experimentation. I had never heard of Kitchen or wood lithography, and pronto plates before or how I can use my printer. I have cut and printed some linoleum blocks with my wooden spoon. I use oil based ink and sometimes find them at the thrift store if I am lucky. I can use some of my oil paint and Golden open up on monoprints. There just see so much opportunity to be creative as a printmaker. Maybe in the future I will be taking my printing stuff along with my during a plein air event and be printing off monoprints or linocuts instead of painting on paper and canvas.
What this also leads me again to is back to paper making. It is like that "If you feed a mouse a cookie thing" and once I get started, who knows where I will end up at. I am excited about the possibility.
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