This botanical monotype or monoprint is made with a gelli plate and acrylic paint. A unique and one-off work, only 1 print can be made of your design. The graphic printing technique and the paper used create all kinds of textures and effects. In this work I have picked flowers, plants and grasses in the roadside and printed them in the paint. The print is soft in color and has a dreamy, fairy-tale atmosphere.
My name is Lida Bruinen, I was born in 1962. After years of drawing mandalas with colored pencil I was ready for more intense materials. In the past I worked with watercolors, but now I mainly choose to paint with acrylics, often in combination with collage. However,.. Read more…