This animation is, per the creator, made out of monotype prints. Monotypes are single prints made from a liquid medium―usually watercolor or ink―being applied to glass or metal. Using them to make a moving image sounds tricky, and I'm sure it is. The animation here is fairly simple, just a bear walking. Could the process be used to do a full storyline? Interesting question. It's an attractive piece, anyway.
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Monotypes are definitely pretty rare mostly because only one print can be made by using the method.
William Blake apparently reinvented and refined monoprinting in a number of his mastrepieces by starting with a monotype, making a print and then painting the resulting image. He was able somehow to get more than one print but I'm not at all sure how even after reading about his method. He was definitely a genius.
The bear walking is a very very cool animation.
Hence the name. Yeah, I guess you can try using the plate for another edition, but best case scenario it will be paler.
Blake was a visionary and it's incredible how much influence he's had on poetry and art, mostly after his own lifetime. It's funny, but I've always pictured him being skinny and bearded and tortured-looking, like some of the figures in his prints. But looking at a portrait I see that he was none of those things.
The bear had something of a serene effect on me.
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