Monoprinting City Lights TIRELS 12

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I want to show how you can apply the techniques from my demos for different types of compositions, transferring the mark making process and monoprinting method and produce interest in your work. Keeping the style loose and fairly abstract I've created these cityscape scenes, I wanted to portray a feeling and create an atmospheric artwork that could be interpreted how you wish, I thought about a recent train journey to London and arriving at a busy Euston station. Try adding a variety of figures, some seated or in groups. When you have more confidence you could create stencils for transport, street signs and road markings etc. I will follow this video up with other less abstract work and introduce portrait, landscape or still life subjects.

Hope you enjoy this demo and it provides some inspiration. Thanks for watching.

Beginning with cutting the stencils to build the composition. It helps to have lots of reference photos of crowds and cut stencils of various sizes to get a realistic perspective. Look also at the work of LS Lowry to see the brilliant and animated way he portrayed busy crowd scenes.

The videos will now be every Monday and Thursday, they will premier at 3pm (GMT)

Most of the artwork shown will be available to buy from my website at the end of each month.

Thank you all so very much for your support and I hope you will enjoy the new videos. I will be repeating some old exercises but there will be lots of new content in future. I would also be interested in any Ideas you may have that you would like me to film.

Materials:

270gsm smooth card.

Oil paint colours : Prussian Blue and Vandyke Brown.

The stencils are cut from thin card using a sharp craft knife. Use reference photos as a guide but keep the shapes fairly simple and abstract.

thin plastic sheets for paint transfer, cocktail stick, blunt pencil, newspaper. Cardboard mount.

This does get messy so I really recommend wearing gloves if you can.

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