Pink

Ok, been a little while but I have completed my first assignment and had it returned a few weeks back. I need to do a few things I'd missed for masking techniques which I'll hand in with my next assignment.
Creating the monoprints for my first assignment wasn't all that much fun - it seems too straight forward. The results were ok but not fantastic - I wasn't expecting to be doing something so basic - more like linocuts and screen printing.
Before I start my next assignment I need to do 'positive and negative masked monoprints' and 'two coloured masked monoprints'. I think I will enjoy doing the masking effect. The teacher has suggested using a slightly less textured paper this time which I will do with oil paints and I would also like to do the same on fabric with fabric paints. The colours I have in mind are my favourite at the moment (similar to below) shades of rose pink inspired by the traditional colours used in Japan from plant dyes.
For the fabric I may hand dye it one shade and mask/paint the second shade.
I am not sure what the shape will be yet but I've had in mind for a while to create some pieces with just a simple circle so it will be along those lines.

Update

I haven't painted anything yet but I have now gathered all of the materials that I need to start making monotypes. Took a little while to find an appropriate printing plate and decided on just using a plain piece of plastic cut from the cover of a book I had.
I have chosen to use oil paints and have selected only a few colours to start with.
I have started sketching the image I wanted to concentrate on (Japanese Trees) and would like to complete that before I start painting.
Here is a plan of what I want to do over this weekend:
1. Finish sketching Japanese trees in biro.
2. Paint just one of the trees roughly into my sketch book.
3. Paint the same tree onto the printing plate and create a monotype print in my sketch book.
4. Take images of all of these and post here.
5. Write notes on all of the images - thoughts and feelings, what I expected and next ideas.


Also just clarifying terminology: monoprinting is a type of printing done using a plate with has some type of
                                                permanent feature, e.g - lines, textures.
                                                Monotype printing is a drawing or painting which has been created on a
                                                smooth non-absorbent surface and printed once, possibly twice but as a
                                                ghost image - the second use of the image can be amended with additional
                                                painting, e.g - shadows, extra colours - so that it is not exactly the same as
                                                the first.

Monoprint prep

Ok, so far I have been learning about monoprints - I don't fully understand the concept of it because it seems to be the method of just painting a picture onto a plate and then printing it onto paper or fabric. The image can't be reproduced (possibly only once afterwards with a 'ghost image') so why not just paint your image straight to your paper or fabric(?).
In any case, it's part of the course so I will do it and see what I learn.
I have also been trying to choose an image to work with over the printmaking course and decided on this on last night. It is my own photo taken of Japanese cloud pruning of garden trees - I took the photo in Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture in April this year.
I am currently sketching out an image of this in my sketch book also just to get the feel of it and while waiting delivery of the necessary materials to paint and print. When these have arrived I will paint this image onto a plastic plate and transfer to paper - I'll upload the outcome on this blog next.