NEW BLOOMS MONOPRINTING WORKSHOP!

Join me for a fun & productive one day monoprinting workshop!

NO NEED TO BE ABLE TO DRAW OR PAINT TO ATTEND!

ABOVE; Creating a sunflower image in Italy in a monoprinting session whilst on tour with a group. We had a blast and produced beautiful pieces with just one of my 8 go to monoprinting methods!

Have you ever wanted  to create artworks quickly & easily with  unexpected and delightful results you could never have planned?

Do you love the idea of making spontaneous decisions and seeing what happens, and being delighted by the results?

Have you longed for a way of working with your art that is less labour intensive?

Are you looking to spark a new direction in your art that could influence your painting?

Then chances are, you will LOVE my New Blooms Monoprinting Workshop!

I have all the guidance you need to keep you producing beautiful prints that work, and that you can also work into with mixed media for even more fun! 

Learn 8 techniques

Get that painterly look with a lot less effort. 

Produce at least 6-8 pieces in one day! 

Frame them inexpensively for beautiful Christmas presents signed by you the artist!

Only 10 places available at each workshop.

All art materials supplied plus a delicious lunch and refreshments, tea and coffee.

A gift folder to protect your work

BYO Water containers.

Free parking, spacious workshop environment.

ABOVE; Monoprints can be created in layers. The pink layer was a failed print but made the perfect base for my almond blossoms. I provide simple and effective visual references that will get you great results  to get started with and to take home to play with for after the workshop.

ABOVE;  A two step print to achieve a fun loose and fresh sunflower monoprint

Two dates and locations to choose from

My One Day Blooms Monoprinting Workshop
 

Saturday Dec 2, 2023 – 9am to 5.30pm
@BAROSSA- Salon Rouge Gallery, Kapunda
19 Carrington Street, Kapunda

10 places

OR

Monday Dec 11, 2023 – 9am to 5.30pm
@ROSEBUD GIRL GUIDE HALL

, Corner Jetty Road & Morgan Road, Rosebud,
Mornington Peninsula

10 places

ABOVE; I think I may have been accidentally channeling a little of Monet in this print of the moonrise over the water! Thats what I love about my Blooms monoprinting, it can give you a great and satisfying result quickly & easily!

What is a monoprint?

Monoprinting is a time honoured process of creating a one off artwork or print. 

It can be printed onto a range of surfaces from paper to wood or a canvas.

You don't need a formal printing press or overly fancy equipment the way I show you how to do it.

You can use acrylics or you can use oil paints. We explore both in one day!

Why would I want to add monoprinting to my set of art skills?

There are famous artists you may already know, who have used this process to flesh out their ideas and try out subject matter in  their art very quickly such as Edgar Degas, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard and more.

ABOVE; a fun approach to a simple landscape in oils which I made on my current work trip in Ceriana from the kitchen table at my accommodation.

It was pretty good, but it needed a tweak. 

At my workshop I show you how to achieve this richness in your print and I also show you how to  tweak a goodish print into a  fabulous print.

Coming from more than 30 years of being an artist and having had formal training at a High Distinction level in traditional Printmaking at Uni as part of my training in the early days of being an artist, I understand the traditional printmaking processes. 

However I never wanted printmaking to be so tied to technicalities and even chemicals. I have always loved the freedom aspect that monoprinting can offer. 

This may explain why....... although I bought myself a proper print making press, I have never used it! I will one day, I am sure, but I'm having too much fun doing it this way!

Etchings and aquatints are beautiful of course, but we can mimic this look using alternative much more accessible materials and much faster & safer ways to produce.

ABOVE; Sometimes the printmaking plate you are left with afterwards is so beautiful it's an artwork in itself and you will want to frame it too, along with your actual prints. This one is  a peony using a modern way of etching I will show you how to do.

In my student days, I was always the one in the studio making these one off exciting prints with my full range of paints scattered across the bench. 

I approach printmaking as a painter who wants to tether the images to something in reality but I allow myself to indulge in the colour and texture as well as happy accidents that transform something simple into a surprising and delightful art piece.

My Blooms Monoprinting workshop is  great if you want a break from the way you usually work and would like to try new skills and techniques to free yourself up.

An inspiring monoprint can be the start of a new body of work!

WARNING: THIS COULD BE HIGHLY ADDICTIVE!

 Create results that are more than just experiments. Finish 6-8 artworks as well as take home  your trial pieces.  

I have developed my Blooms  processes to keep my students  pulling prints productively and successfully to give great results, not just producing a bunch of patterns or colours you can't do anything with. 

My Blooms teaching is always about producing finished results you can be proud of.

Learn at least 8 ways of making monoprints so you have a ton of methods to play with! Demos for every stage and support for your images and prints throughout.

Over the years I have made monoprints to sell with subject matter as diverse as flowers, still life, landscape and circus themes. Estee Lauder commissioned me for a series of peony monoprints for a perfume launch in Sydney a few years ago.

ABOVE; Look where being good at monoprints and loving flowers got me? A VIP Guest invite to stand on stage with TV presenter Catriona Rowntree back in 2010 to help launch this beautiful Estee Lauder peony frangrance and commissioned to produce over 40 framed monoprints for the beauty editors to enjoy a stunning peony gift that lasts.

Not to mention the limo pickuop from the airport, the hotel and all expenses paid, and my make up done by a professional make up artist! OMG! Love monoprinting! It was the perfect solution for this VIP event. We even made the weekend press social pages in colour! What can monoprinting do for you?

ABOVE; This is a cutie peony monoprint I did in Perth at a small group fun get together, using simple very cheap materials and now it's ready for those last minute touches. 

Too much fiddling and it will be ruined. 

Just the right touch and it will be perfection. I show you the how at the workshop and assist you to make the decisions when you need it so you know how to make your monoprints even more fabulous using a range of mixed media!

Prints are quicker to make than paintings on canvas yet they are paintings for the most part, the way I teach this.

That means they can be sold for affordable prices as they don't take as long to make in comparison to a painting yet they look stunning. As a selling artist they were always fabulous bread and butter income at my gallery as well as fun to make, where I sold my blooms paintings as well .

ABOVE; With monoprinting even your mistakes can become delightful masterpieces! This print came about when one of my prints bombed, but it made the best base for my heart image!  All that texture and colour was put to good use!

For me, printmaking has always been a way to explore a subject matter BEFORE I go to the canvas. I also like to work as an artist on the go. 

Just before the Blooms Painting workshops in New Zealand for example I was making monoprints on a spare evening. 

I have been making monoprints on my current trip from Italy and from the Barossa just before I left home too! I can't always get to my big canvases but I like to create! 

I LOVE the spontaneity of working this way.

'Wild Rose' Monoprint using a gelli plate combined with the Blooms method

One of the surprises of monoprinting is I can monoprint using easy to find materials, some of them from your own waste bin which can be upcycled. Yes I will show you!

Additionally I have new ways of monoprinting to add to the mix which provide access to a variety of exciting results providing a drawing quality to the work, and in other instances a contemporary bold look or a painterly look!

NO NEED TO BE ABLE TO DRAW OR PAINT!

When I have shared these processes in private groups with students they have LOVED it, and I do too. This is creative flow you will want to bottle!

I have a heap of material for you to work with!

I hope to see you in class!