Monotypes are a kind of painted print. On a sunny morning I set up this informal still life and rolled out oil ink onto a zinc plate using a brayer. After a couple of hours of rag wiping, painting, texture impressing and more brayering, I lay the plate face up on my press with a piece of damp etching paper on it and felt blankets on top of plate and paper. I cranked the whole sandwich through the press, and out came this print. I did the second one the same way.
This third print is a monotype done with reference to a photo of a falling-down house on my friend’s property.
Helena Kottanner’s Memoire 8 x 12 x 1/2” limp vellum binding with Twinrocker paper, vellum straps, Cartiera Magnani Velota paper, 56 blocks carved out of poplar, printed on an antique Vandercook letterpress, hand-touched with watercolor; photopolymer text plates by Brandon Mies; edition 125. Published with a Library Fellows grant from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Manuscript by Helene Kottanner. Translated from Middle High German to English by Hildegard Stalzer Bomer with a Readers Digest Teacher-Scholar grant.
