Category: Interiors
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A Brief Essay on How and Why to Make Monotypes
Monotypes, though simple, are very process-oriented and often defeat results-oriented art making. Change is built in to the creative process, and often, until change is addressed, satisfying prints don’t happen. We’ve let the word “print” become degraded and we often reflexively see them as a way of producing imitation paintings. The medium especially in recent…
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Everything’s a Work in Progress
What I have worked on this winter is a small series of work intended to develop organically from sketchbook ideas on up through experiments in different sized paper and eventually to a large, significant, and fully realized work. Especially as I transition to new methods of working such as stencilling, etc, I’ve tended to have…
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Act Naturally
“Well I hope you’ll come and see me in the movies Then I’ll know that you can plainly see The biggest fool that ever hit the bigtime And all I gotta do is- act naturally I auditioned for a spot on community television as host of a proposed show on the Denver art scene. I…
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Welcome to JoeHigginsMonotypes.com
Welcome to JoeHigginsMonotypes.com. It’s taken a while longer to get up and running than I anticipated. This is partly due to a wicked busy schedule, and partly due to just not being savvy enough to navigate WordPress’ rather clunky, but undeniably cost-effective software. As you see, the site is a rather skeletal affair right now.…
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Doesn’t Follow
I have to say, I crack myself up a little when I do this stuff, and am not totally convinced that anyone else really gets the joke. This is a ghost of a fairly experimental picture that I called “Incomplete Still Life”, which contained the distressed table and distorted perspective of a floor, or maybe…
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The Cruelest Month?
I remember being bored at times back in January/February, when it too cold to go out, and I would prowl through the shelves looking for something new to read, or re-read. Now, in wet, gray April/May, with the workshop, and the show at Open Press (opening tonight!), boredom is not a problem. It’s been a…
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More From Monday
Interior, 1/1, 15×21″ This is also from last Monday. Kind of a test run. It has pencil lines, because I love drawing and have wanted to include it in monotypes for a while. The different colored torn papery-looking elements are chine colle, loosely translated, that means “different colored torn papery process”. They are wheat-pasted on…
