In this workshop you will explore embellishing a print, to create a painterly and fresh effect. These prints can look like oil paintings when complete. We will be starting with a double monotype, which will
be worked into with chalk pastels. This can produce impressionistic and delicate results that combine with the velvety marks and tones of monotypes. We will use the Direct drawing method, sometimes called trace monoprinting or monotype. It gives a beautiful delicate, or sometimes beautiful and bold, image – dependent on the paper and/or pressure used. It can easily be done at home – there is no need for a press or specialist equipment. The experimentation and freedom of “grazing” and adding colour is very low stakes and high rewards. You will be in good company – as Degas used this way of working
for many of his pieces. You will need to bring some reference photos that inspire you.

What you will learn:
• How to make the double monotypes
• How to assemble and use the prints
• How to develop the piece with pastel

Your Tutor: Alex Jakob-Whitworth
Alex has been a painter printmaker since studying Fine Art at Leeds University where her final show was mainly etching. Although her practice encompasses a wide variety of media, printmaking remains her first love, as she enjoys the magic of the mechanical process that culminates in the ‘reveal’. Her
work is focused on landscape, and the horse. She finds the possibilities in these as a metaphor for the human condition and our relationship with our environment endless
– but also because they are beautiful in all their forms.

www.alexjakobwhitworth.co.uk
@alexjw28arts
Alex Jakob-Whitworth is a member of Cumbria Printmakers
www.cumbriaprintmakers.co.uk

Please bring an apron and rubber gloves to protect clothes and hands.