Patricia Walach Keough

Careful studies of the familiar in paintings, monotypes, and prints.

In the monotype printmaking method I paint on bevelled plexiglass, then print the image onto damp paper with an etching press. This selection of monotypes contains images painted with thinned oil paints and ones painted with watercolors The oil monotypes must be completed in a couple days, before the paint dries, while the watercolor monotypes can be worked on for weeks. The dried watercolor comes off the plexiglass plate because of the moisture in the damp paper. Painting on plexiglass allows for a lot of paint movement and change .... I can “draw through” the paint with wooden sticks ...it encourages strong graphics. It’s a fusion of my interest in printmaking and oil painting.

monotypes

I paint on plexiglass, then print the image onto damp paper with an etching press. This allows for a lot of paint movement and change...I can "draw through" the paint with wooden sticks. It's a fusion of my interest in printmaking and painting. "River Baptism" was in the 3rd and "4th of July" is in the 4th National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition of the Monotype Guild of NE in 2013 and 2016. "Granada Market" and "Masaya Street" are watercolor monotypes printed with 3 plates each.