Purple Sky and Red Mountains (Monotype)

Purple Sky and Red Mountains (Monotype) Originally uploaded by randubnick

This is the third of four prints that I made Tuesday night in printmaking class at Red Brick Studios. For this image, I began with a plate that already been printed. (It was one of two plates used to make the image posted here on April 23rd.) My original idea was to do a ghost print of the plate by running it through the press again, but there wasn't enough ink left on the plate. So I put additional ink on the lower portion of the plate, and carved out the white areas by removing the ink with a piece of cardboard. I left the top portion of the plate alone, so in this image, the area that looks like sky is actually a ghost print.