My husband, Todd Mrozinski, built a new print shop in our studio last year and I have been exploring monotype prints. These are made by painting with brushes onto a clean, copper plate with printing inks and medium for thinning the dense inks. You run it through the press and get one print. (‘mono’ type meaning one). You can also press it one more time for a “ghost” print which comes out lighter and more mysterious. There is a level of chance that is an exciting aspect of the process as you are not quite sure how it will turn out. I enjoy the variety of loose marks you can achieve with the inks. They work much different than paint and the surface is so smooth that it creates a limitation to the control one has with it. This is a deep practice of letting go and allowing the work to reveal itself rather than being rendered/created.

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