Explore Monoprint

Welcome to the Monoprint section of the Archives. Here we’ve gathered together all the content we have that features monoprint. You’ll find video workshops and inspirational blog posts with lots of ideas and information to help you create some wonderful monoprints.

About Monoprinting

Monoprint is one of our favourite techniques. Why? Well because it’s so versatile, immediate and easy to get started with. You can monoprint onto paper, sketchbook pages and fabric. You can use printing ink, fabric paint or acrylic. You can work in colour, black and white, in a painterly way or with a linear, graphic style. You can incorporate the use of stencils, stamps and natural materials. 

The prints you make might be complete artworks in their own right, or you might be printing to make papers for collage. Perhaps you’ll use monoprint in your sketchbook as the basis for exciting pages. Or maybe you’ll print on fabric to create beautiful cloth for your quilts, garments or stitched textiles?

You’ll only need simple equipment to get started and in our video workshops we’ll guide you through the processes to achieve great results. 

If you’re new around here, a great place to start is our free Exploring Monoprint workshop. Enjoy.

Video Workshops

Monoprint Image Transfer

Laura experiments with her gel plate and an image transfer mono printing technique. It's not foolproof, but it's lots of fun and you'll end up with a fantastic pile of monoprints and collage papers which can be perfect for your sketchbook, mixed media work, journals and altered books. In this workshop Laura demonstrates working on paper, this technique might work on fabric, but we've not tried it - yet!

Monoprint And Painting

So you have made a huge pile of monoprints, but what are you going to do with them? In this workshop Laura will show you how you can combine prints and add layers of paint to complete a beautifully painterly piece filled with colour.

Birdsong

Use monoprint with stencils to create a bird motif on fabric before adding appliqué and stitch to make a beautiful stitched textile that could be displayed as a wall quilt or made into a cushion.

Monoprint on Fabric

Explore monoprinting methods on fabric. Print your own fabulous yardage with easy monoprint methods, try using tracing and stencils for impressive figurative compositions, and then join Linda and Laura in the studio to see how Laura's been using monoprint in her quiltmaking.

More Monoprint

Extend your monoprint technique library with this collection of video workshops. We'll show you how to create a painted monoprint, work with stamps to create pattern and a great method for monoprinted frames. All of these techniques are ideal for working on paper or fabric.

Screenprint, Monoprint and Stitch

Learn how to create one-of-a-kind printed fabrics using a fabulous screen printing method with stencils, then overprint with monoprinting to add graphic marks. Laura will then guide you through planning piecing ideas in your sketchbook before sharing her tips for quilting the results.

Monoprint Landscape

Work with Laura to explore monoprinting methods including how to use paper stencils to print on fabric and paper. She'll show you how to make a series of sequenced prints. Next work on a landscape design on fabric with a central scene and border design. Add stitching by hand and machine to complete your mini quilt.

Handprinted Sketchbooks

In this archive collection of 5 video workshops join Linda and Laura to print, bind and work into your very own sketchbook.

Veggie-Jelli Monoprinting

Make your own jelli plate and learn how to layer coloured prints. Prepare your prints, make compositions and stitch!

Exploring Monoprint – Free!

Explore the potential of monoprinting techniques.

Other resources

The Monoprinted Moths are Multiplying!

See how Linda has incorporated her mono prints into her latest two quilt tops. She explains how she's tackling the quilting.

Framing a monoprinted screenprint

We'd had a screen printing session at Laura's studio during the holidays and it reminded me I'd got a heap of prints I'd made ages ago. I loved this combo print of screenprint and monoprint.

Handprinted Sketchbook

See how Linda's Handprinted Sketchbook is coming along...

Re-making an Agar Gel Print Plate

Re-cast your veggie-jelli printing plate for perfect monoprints.

New on DMTV

Reverse Applique Quilting

Are you looking for new ideas to help with your quilting? Knowing how to quilt a piece can be one of the hardest parts of a project. In this workshop Laura will demonstrate a creative technique for quilting your work that introduces texture and colour by cleverly combining free motion quilting with reverse appliqué.

In the Mix: Rubbings and Drawing

Work along with Laura to bring more confidence to your drawing. Laura will show you how rubbings can be the basis for beautiful tonal drawings.

Inktense Rubbings: Background Pattern

You might have a portrait drawn with Inktense, or maybe a monoprint worked on fabric with tricky, empty background areas. In this workshop Laura will demonstrate how you can make rubbing plates and take rubbings with Inktense blocks to fill those areas with pattern and colour.

Quilting with Grids

Grids can provide you with an excellent basis for your quilting. Linda will show you how to quilt grids with a walking foot and shares her tips for success with this method. Next, with that grid in place, you'll see how you can work within it using freehand quilting to add beautiful patterns.

Inspired by Nature

Find inspiration in nature and see how Linda interprets a photographic source as a mixed media study in her sketchbook. She'll show you how to use watercolour, charcoal pencils and oil pastel to create rich surfaces sympathetic to the subject matter. Then working from her sketchbook, Linda interprets the mixed media study into a stitched textile. See how she uses opaque and transparent fabric scraps to build painterly layers adding texture with machine and hand stitching. 

Plant Printing

Be inspired by nature around you and collect leaves to use for plant printing. Linda will show you how to make beautiful contact prints on paper. Laura will demonstrate how to make simply structured, but endlessly creative concertina books to house your prints. Finally Linda shares her ideas for working back into your plant printed sketchbook to edit, refine and add detail. The result will be a truly unique record of the plant material you've collected and a fabulous sketchbook for inspiration and further development.


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