One more green dog...

whose name hasn't come to me yet.

He began as monoprint2 - this one:

A starting point.

And now here he is:

Why green fur again? I have no idea :-)

This piece was a lot of fun - more watercolor, graphite, charcoal, pastels and colored pencil. There are three remaining dog-themed monoprints (I think one of them is actually done) but I put them away for now.

Why? Because it's way past Yupo time (Fairy Tale 2 catch up time).

The Green Dog

Since my last post I did more work on monoprint 3. The little green-ish dog is even more green now so I caved and now officially call him "The Green Dog" :-)

Green Dog say, "Hello":

I was thinking about my dog, MacDuff, even though he was a Westie and had all-white fur :-)

I don't have much experience with Gelli Plate monoprinting so there is a lot of room for learning and exploration.

Messy work

Getting messy with paint doesn't bother me which is a good thing as I become a mess and make a mess whenever I  work with paint. It's the clean up part that I don't like - I'm sure I'm not alone in this :-)

And creating monoprints is such an opportunity to get really messy. I've been working on the ones I pulled last week (Lesson One of Carla Sonheim's "Gelli Plate Plus" online class*).

So here is the third monoprint from that assignment:

Remember this little guy?

It now looks like this:

Making progress; I like the background...

I have more to do...but I'm getting there :-)

* Note: This mini-class has ended.

Sharing "Un-Success"

"Oy", the word that comes to mind when I review my monoprints from a class I am taking (Carla Sonheim's Gelli Plate Plus). One consideration Carla noted on the class blog is that this technique has "a high failure rate". Fair warning.

Earlier this morning, a cartoon depicting my feelings about the prints I pulled yesterday would be of an acrylic paint splattered figure with a depression bubble cloud over my head. Yes, "un-success" in a big way...and I'd like to share that? Not really, but I had to post my monoprints on FlickR because it is something I use for accountability.

This is what I am going on about:

First attempt...

Soldiering on:

Third attempt

More:

Best one of the lot - could be considered 'done'.

This one is from my slush pile and it actually is an improvement:

The more I look at it, the more I like it. Hmmm...

I have had some time to let the disappointment subside. I know that most if not all of these monoprints are in stage 1 - and I have learned a lot of techniques to transform them.

I am looking forward to getting into my studio today to do just that. But first Remy and I are going on walkies. Woof  :-)