This botanical monotype or monoprint is made with a gelli plate and acrylic paint. A unique and one-off work, only 1 print can be made of your design. The graphic printing technique and the paper used create all kinds of textures and effects. In this work I picked flowers, plants and grasses from the verge and printed them in the paint. The yellow ochre color suggests earth and the blue sky with the moon reminds of the blue hour, when the sun has just set.
My name is Lida Bruinen, I was born in 1962. After years of drawing mandalas with colored pencil I was ready for more intense materials. In the past I worked with watercolors, but now I mainly choose to paint with acrylics, often in combination with collage. However,.. Read more…