Category: SEN and Disability - AccessArt: Sharing Visual Arts Inspiration

This post follows on from Gathering Marks and Tearing Paper to Appreciate Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and shares how teachers enjoyed monoprinting on a big scale. The session was facilitated by Paula Briggs and Sheila Ceccarelli from AccessArt and Kate Noble from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Monoprinting to Explore Expressive Mark Making on a Freeing Scale

Monoprinting can be a very liberating process to explore and free up drawing.

Having been inspired by prints by Turner, Goya and Cornelius in a Temporary Exhibition up in the galleries, teachers came down to the Education Room to have a go at printmaking themselves on a big scale.

After Sheila demonstrated monoprinting basics, teachers were encouraged to experiment and learn the technique through trial and error.

Ink was rolled out directly onto the table, which had been protected with large plasticised paper. Teachers either drew directly into the ink and then took a print from that, or laid a piece of paper over the ink and drew through the paper to reveal a print.

There were a variety of different textured pieces on the table, including feathers, lace, embossed wall paper, hessian and string, which could be used to take further prints.

A Sheet of Paper Placed over the Inked Plate - Using Pencil Pressure to Make Marks — A Sheet of Paper Placed over the Inked Plate – Using Pencil Pressure to Make Marks

Making Marks Directly into the Inked Plate

Using an Inked Plate Face Down over Collage to Add Marks

Repeated Monoprints over Same Large Drawing

Printing Using Embossed Wallpaper as Plate

Monoprinting Over Embossed Wall Paper Print

Monoprint over Initial Warm Up Collage, and Extended Past the Paper

Many thanks to the teachers who participated in this InSET training session for sharing their ideas and processes with AccessArt and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Photographs by Paula Briggs.

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