I am a landscape painter juxtaposing color in pastel to create the illusion of light.

First of all you might ask what is monotype. Monotype is a print but with one major difference from other printmaking processes: the artist creates exactly one print instead of a series of prints. Monotypes are typically painterly in effect, they are made by applying printing ink to a flat sheet of non porous surface. Plexi glass is most common, the plate is covered with ink and the image is formed by manipulating and removing ink with a variety of tools, squeegees, sticks, rags, brushes, etc., Each inked plate will yield one monotype, but occasionally a "ghost image" can be made from the residual ink on the plate.

Edgar Degas, used this extensively in some of his pastel landscapes.

It is not necessary to have a press as I do, barrens, hand pressing are things you can employ to get the ink from the plate to the paper.

Below is a link to a short video on creating an underpainting in monotype and applying pastel.

The monotype after being pulled from the press, as you can see it is the reverse of the image painted on the plate. I used Akua inks, brayers, tongue depressors, q-tips, squeegees, paper towels to manipulate the ink on the plate.

Sunset Behind the Pines Pastel over monotype 16x12

Click the link below to watch the entire process

https://youtu.be/WDAmbdiMig0