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Experimental Monotype Drawing Class
Discover a freer way of drawing through tactile, spontaneous monotype techniques
2.5 hours
6 to 8 guests
$75
($80 per guest when you book for 1 guest, $75/guest for 2+ guests. $50 per class surcharge applies for private classes)
What you'll do
Ready to loosen up your drawing practice and explore a more intuitive way of making images?Making monotypes using drawing is fast, tactile, and wonderfully unpredictable—a chance to make images that feel alive the moment they touch the page.In this energetic, hands-on workshop, we’ll explore several expressive monotype approaches, including trace monotypes, additive monotypes, and painterly monotypes, all created simply with your hands, pressure, and intuition.Using soy-based Akua inks, you’ll work from magazine images, your own drawings, or natural history objects from our studio collection—seed pods, shells, driftwood, and other coastal treasures—to generate immediate, responsive imagery.Monotypes have been around since the mid-1600s, when artists like Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione began drawing directly onto inked plates to create one-off prints. Later, artists such as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Henri Matisse embraced monotypes for their spontaneity, using the process to capture movement, gesture, colour, and atmosphere in ways traditional printmaking couldn’t match.Today, monotypes are a favourite in contemporary art for their gestural freedom, fluidity, and immediacy. Because you don’t need to carve, etch, or prepare a plate, monoprinting opens space for creativity, experimentation, and intuitive mark-making.It’s a process that encourages you to respond directly to the moment—perfect for artists who want to loosen up, explore new ideas quickly, or reconnect with the joy of drawing.Cancellation Policy: Life happens, we get it! You can cancel or reschedule your workshop booking anytime up to 7 days before the class. Unfortunately, if you cancel within 7 days and we're unable to fill your spot, we won’t be able to offer a refund or credit. You’re welcome to pass your ticket on to someone else - just send us a message with their name and contact details so we can update the booking. Thanks so much for your understanding and support.
What you'll get
By the end of the session, you'll take home a series of experimental drawings with the skills and knowledge to experiment more at home.
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Knowledge required
Suitable for everyone, including curious beginners. No drawing experience is required, just an enthusiasm to give it a go and try something new.Cancellation Policy: Life happens; we get it! You can cancel or reschedule your workshop booking anytime up to 7 days before the class. Unfortunately, if you cancel within 7 days and we're unable to fill your spot, we won’t be able to offer a refund or credit. You’re welcome to pass your ticket on to someone else—just send us a message with their name and contact details so we can update the booking. Thanks so much for your understanding and support.
What to bring
- Some references to work from (own drawings, cheap magazines or found images) on thinnish paper (eg low quality magazine paper). If working from photographs, print them onto thin paper, approx 80gsm or less. The thinner the source paper the better your monotype drawing.
- thin papers to print/draw onto - for example, rice paper, Honshu or thin cartridge, A3 or A4
- an old dry biro to use as a stylus
Location
Hive Studios, Unit 13/10 Depot Street, Banyo QLD
Art from the Urban Wilderness is located at Hive Studios in the suburb of Banyo, 15 km from the centre of Brisbane City. By Car – via the Gateway Motorway, take Exit 112 at the Nudgee Service Centre. By Train – walk from Northgate Station (2 kilometres) or Banyo Station (1.2 kilometres) or catch an uber or taxi from the station (1-2 minutes drive).
Your teacher can also travel within 50 kms of Banyo, to a venue of your choice for a private class.
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Recent reviews of Experimental Monotype Drawing Class
- 5/5 from Alison Jarick, attended Oct 2026: The class was relaxed and enjoyable. The atmosphere was creative and participants really took to experimenting and discovering what could be done with monotype.
- 5/5 from Dagmar Titherington, attended Oct 2026: Thank you, Glenda for a relaxing and simultaneously enticing morning. The mono printing was fascinating, informative and such fun. A fabulous way to spend a Sunday morning.
- 5/5 from Donna Beikoff, attended Oct 2026: Great technique to learn! Glenda’s knowledge and facilitation was very helpful. Plenty of encouragement to explore and experiment with the Monotype process. Awesome facilities and plenty of materials available. I would highly recommend!
Your teacher
Glenda Hennig
5.0 (3)
Glenda is a Brisbane based printmaker, papermaker and maker of artist’s books. She has many years of art teaching experience, both in schools and for adults. Her art practice usually involves the places where we set up home; houses, gardens, or the natural world outside our back doors. She likes to explore lagoons and creeks and the trees, plants and creatures there, weeds and bugs included, making drawings, prints and paper that reflect her interest in what grows and lives in wilder urban spaces.
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Art from the Urban Wilderness is a community art studio located at Hive Studios in Banyo, northside Brisbane/Meanjin.The studio was founded by artist Sandra Pearce in 2021, and specialises in the techniques of printmaking, papermaking, drawing, bookbinding and artist books. We offer workshops, courses, social art days, and artist talk events.Our mission is to build an inclusive art community that nurtures creative authenticity, confidence and resilience. We also believe in the power of art to break the cycle of disaffection towards nature, to enrich lives and inspire care for the environment.The studio is fully air-conditioned with some onsite parking as well as street parking.
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