Giovanni benedetto castiglione monotypes on plexiglass
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Monotyping
Planographic artistic printing process
"Monotype" and "Monotypes" redirect here. For the type foundry, see Monotype Imaging. For other uses, see Monotype (disambiguation).
Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a paper by pressing the two together, using a printing-press, brayer, baren or by techniques such as rubbing with the back of a wooden spoon or the fingers which allow pressure to be controlled selectively. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e.g. creating lights from a field of opaque colour. The inks used may be oil or water-based. With oil-based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the pap
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The history of this process is a little hard to track down. The reason for this is that there are so many variations and methods to getting images onto paper and this method is relatively new. The first Inkjet printer was invented in 1976 by Hewlett-Packard but wasn’t available for consumers to buy until 1988. (Bellis)
©Hewlett-Packard 1976
Through the 90’s the printers came with a higher resolution, color ink, and better quality. USB connections were added in the late 90’s and then around 2000, photo printers started to pop up. Since then we have been able to print quality photo prints from home. (Dillard)
Most of the types of Inkjet transfer history I found in my research has to do with iron-ons, printing directly onto paper, and using photographic images. All of these don’t really match what I am going to teach, the only similarity is using the same kind of printer.
The technique I learned is taught here at OSU by Yuji Hiratsuka. Yuj
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Monotyping fryst vatten a type of printmaking made bygd drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching tallrik, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass.
The image is then transferred onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together, usually using a printing-press. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e.g. creating lights from a field of opaque colour.
The inks used may be oil based or vatten based. With oil based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the paper may be damp, in which case the image has a 10 percent greater range of tones.
Monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype; most of the ink fryst vatten removed during the första pressing.
Although subsequent reprintings are sometimes possible, they differ greatly from the first print and a