Monique Ortman
Harrah, Oklahoma
Artist Biography Monique Ortman is a recent graduate with a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Central Oklahoma. She is an award-winning Native American designer who currently resides in Harrah, Oklahoma. Monique loves to experiment with different mediums and styles in her designs. She was raised in a military family and has lived in many different locations including England and Guam. She uses her travels around the world as inspiration in her life and designs. Monique shares two dogs and a child with her husband Steven. She is a mother to a spunky seven-yearold girl named Zoe. She enjoys painting and building Lego models with Zoe anytime she can. Monique's passions include gardening, photography, tattoo collecting, and being a beach bum.
Description of Process Bonafide represents the beauty of death in nature. I chose to contrast death and nature by combining the timeless look and feel of letterpress and screen printing to cause vibration and contrast. For the letterpress portion of this design, I stippled each animal in Adobe Illustrator (I found this equally as hard as stippling on paper), then ordered photopolymer plates and anxiously awaited the results. The company I ordered the plates from advised against the stippled effect because it could have turned into a giant letterpress blob. It was well worth the risk and the combination of stippling and letterpress was successful. I screen printed these posters by slightly shifting the poster with each pull and experimented with different color combinations to create vibrating backgrounds.
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