New Watercolor Monotypes

I have been working on some watercolor monotypes for the class I am teaching at Red Delicious Press. The monotype class I will teach starts on June 18 and meets every Thursday from 6 - 9 pm for five weeks. If you have questions or would like to enroll please email me at reddeliciouspress@gmail.com. I really like watercolor but I get annoyed with the paint drying at different intervals and I'm not really a fan of watercolor paper (I love Rives BFK) so I decided to paint my watercolor onto frosted mylar and then transfer them to Rives by running the dry painting with moist paper through my etching press. When the paint and paper are dry I begin drawing in certain areas with oil pencil. 

New Work

I thought I would add some new images I have been working on. This set I have been playing around with for quite a while. I was photographing water reflections while I was living in Arizona thinking I would insert them into the background of the obituary portraits I was working on for my thesis show. They languished in my hard drive but I really like the way they look now, somewhat abstract but recognizable and representative of the fact that  I have always been attracted to patterning in the natural world.