Hi, I'm Molly, and welcome to art class. Today we are going to be creating a monoprint
with just a few items you can find around your house. Let's go!
For this project, you will need a Styrofoam plate, tempera or acrylic paints, a pencil,
masking tape, a brayer or paint brushes, black cardstock, scissors,
glue, a piece of cardboard, and a tray for your paint. For a variation on your monoprint,
you can experiment using different colored paper, different colored paints, or even you can create a
brand new monoprint by using a different type of animal shape or idea as your subject. Let's go!
Hi, I'm Molly. I'm Olivia. And today, we are going to make a monoprint, and we are going to take a
Styrofoam plate that I've cut in half. Once we've drawn a fish and cut that out, we are going to
attach that to a piece of cardboard, and that will become our monoprint. So let's get started.
So first we are going to draw a fish on this piece of paper. I made mine really thin,
a longer piece of paper, because it has to fit my Styrofoam plate. You might use a whole plate,
and that's totally okay. I just cut ours in half, just for conservation sake.
You may want to find a drawing of a fish. That always helps, and I like to do the outside
lines first and then add the details in later.
Okay, so once you have your fish, you're gonna try to line it up on your Styrofoam
plate as best you can. But you're gonna take a piece of tape and tape it to
your Styrofoam. All right, and once you - you can go ahead, Olivia. Start tracing your fish.
Okay, I'm gonna lift mine up and see what I got.
But I'm just gonna actually cut out my fish in parts.
Okay, now that you've cut out your fish, take some time to glue it down in different parts like we
did. I just used a gel glue. You can use any type of glue that you want, and you really - a liquid
glue definitely works the best. And so you want to press it down. You want to make sure it's fully
dry before we do this next step. So if you need to pause the video, go ahead and do that right now.
So now that you've glued it down to your cardboard, and this cardboard was just the
backing of an old drawing pad that I had. Or if you want to use a cardboard box. I find that the
drawing pad and sketch pads have a very strong backing that I really like to use. So if you can
find that, that would be great. So Olivia has a brayer. You can use a foam brayer if you want.
You can use a paintbrush. These are rubber brayers, that they actually do use in printmaking,
and so we are going to take just some tempera paint,
and we just roll our brayer in it. Try to get it all the way around,
but to where it's pretty even. So go ahead, Olivia. You can try to get some on yours. Try
to roll it all the way around first, yeah. And we're just going to roll it over top of the fish,
okay? And now we are going to take this cardboard, and this is going to come out backwards. So don't
be upset, because you turn it. Just like a mirror, it comes out like a mirror image. We're going to
press down with our fist. Hold it with one hand, and just rub rub, rub, rub, rub, rub.
Okay, and we're gonna try to pull straight off. So if you need to peel it off like that,
okay? All right. So we have our white fish on black paper. These can even be bubbles. Don't
worry if there's little dots around it. You can even take a paintbrush and draw little bubbles. I
hope you enjoyed making a monoprint with us. Keep creating. Keep making art. And see you next time