New Butterfly Monotype was born today!

First you see it being created on its plexiglas plate, and then you see it take off. Note that it flips!

Photos by Arlene Broyles.

More transfer drawings

New uses for humble old kitchen tools!

More from art workshop with Annie Stromquist

The second day we learned stamping techniques, using an enticing variety of found and homemade stamps and methods.

Here's Annie demonstrating, Lorraine lounging, Nancy, our gracious and generous hostess holding up her lovely piece - and a group project demonstrating the various techniques learned over the two days - really a sampler.

My first transfer drawings!

More about transfer drawing with Annie Stromqvist

Humboldt County's arts collective 7 Plus learning the printmaking technique of transfer drawing at Nancy Head's home in Fortuna.

Now I know how Paul Klee made those amusing smudgey drawings. Paul Klee at MOMA.

Annie's website is listed under useful links to the left in the blog.

Learning transfer drawing with Annie Stromquist, session 1 of 2

Here you see the tools used for transfer drawing, and Annie demonstrating how to create them.

Robert Rauschenberg's transfer drawings

"The transfer technique, which he took up in 1958, had remarkably few moving parts. It involved soaking newspaper or magazine clippings in solvent, laying them face down on drawing paper and then hatching back and forth across them with a dry pen nib. The results dazzle; in a flickering, almost strobelike effect, images seem to rise to the surface like memories through a scrim — or through the static of a television set. The critic Lawrence Alloway likened the fluctuating motifs to “a postcard stand in a windstorm.”

Website describing these transfer drawings

I am getting ready today for a workshop, with my 7 Plus artist friends, taught by Annie Stromquist. The first day will be spent learning how to make transfer drawings. They seem mysterious to me!