Three tan streets

I recently discovered a lovely café au lait colored Stonehenge paper in an 11"x14" pad. It's darker than the tan tiles from Zentangle, and I looked forward to doing some larger work on brown. I also had a small piece of printing styrofoam that I've had for years thinking "I must use this sometime!" but never have, until now.

I divided one sheet of paper into equal thirds. I drew some quick house-y shapes on the styrofoam. I used thinned, brown acrylic paint as my printing medium and printed the same styrofoam plate each time on the three papers. Here's the styrofoam after being used.

I was interested to see how different the three drawings would be, once completed, all beginning with the same basic print. Sort of like a zentangle class where everyone starts with the same string and the same tangles but after that individuality reigns! Here are the three monoprints I started with:

Nope. They don't look like much do they? But, take some time to tangle, and...

Here's the first one, completed.

THE CLIMBING TREE
(c)2014 Margaret Bremner

Here's the second one, completed.

LUSH
(c)2014 Margaret Bremner

Here's the third one, completed. I was a little surprised by the stripes that began appearing, but decided to let them happen.

ROWHOUSES
(c)2014 Margaret Bremner

I quite like this paper but I did find it rather dark. A white pen looked too stark and it required quite some effort to lighten areas sufficiently. But I have the rest of the pad, and other ideas!