A Trace monoprint of twiggy tree

Today I did not have lots of time, so I did a quick trace monoprint of a twiggy tree.

trace monoprint of stylized tree

I love the fuzzy line that is characteristic of a trace monoprint. I used a newsprint pick up to lift off a little bit of the plate ink. Then I put the print paper on the ink and transferred the ink to the print paper with a pencil tracing of the original drawing.

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