This video features artist Anna van der Ploeg working on multiple plates using watercolour paints to create Watercolour Monotypes. The series is The Winds!, from 2021.
A Watercolour Monotype is made using watercolour paints or water soluble mediums on a perspex or plexiglass plate, coated in Gum Arabic. The paint is left to dry and then transferred onto paper by running the plate and water dampened paper through the press.
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Artist Anna van Der Ploeg’s exhibition Visitor is underpinned by the body of prints made during Van der Ploeg’s 10-day residency at the David Krut Workshop in January 2021, during which she worked with printer Roxy Kaczmarek making etchings and monotypes. An accomplished printmaker, having studied printmaking at the University of Cape Town and having participated in a residency in Japan working with Mokuhanga, a water-based woodblock printmaking technique, Van der Ploeg took to the studio environment with ease. The freedom afforded her by having a team of printmakers to work with, and a professional studio setup, allowed her to take a deep dive into the medium, and she used the short time she had in the workshop to create a relatively large body of prints that draw on the imagery that currently fascinates her.
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