Valéri Maugeri

Karl Bang

"Karl Bang was born as Bong Ka in Shanghai in 1935."

I used to appreciate his art more... now the "pretty ladies"  bore me. They are just pretty, posing expressionlessly, frozen, and remind of dolls. The three last ones are better, though.
I do love the colors, the animals and such.

Vladislav Erko

Illustration to Paulo Coelho's Alchemist

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: monoprinting

Monotypes are done so that you create the artwork on a smooth surface, like a sheet of metal or glass, but also wood or paper is being used. Then you take a print from this. The second print is "ghost print" :-D
You don't create any permanent matrix, printing plate this way, you just want to get your hands to the specific result of printing.

Becky Fehsenfeld - Blue Lion

The paint blob butterflies are one example of this :-D

Alyssa Edmee Fanning

Monoprints are very much the same. "Mono" means one.
When you have a permanent printing plate and you ink it in a specific way, so the print is unique, then you have create a monoprint.

Jane Schwartz Gates

Most stamped ATCs are monoprints, as the stamp is being inked differently and pushed in different spots with each print made.

"Nice dash of paprika" talks about monoprinting with leaves

"Grafiikka" - printmaking: lithography

Lithography is sort of opposite to etching and that stuff. You start with a smooth stone or metal, on which you draw the image with something greasy, and then etch everything that hasn't been drawn onto, and when you ink the stone, the ink will stuck on greasy bits, and not in the etched areas.

Caitlyn B. Alexander shows how it's done.

Edward Munch

 Maurice Sendak

Eileen Mayo

Interesting part of this is, that when color lithography was invented in mid 19th century, they printed all the postcards, posters, ads and paper things, like masks and paperdolls with this method. 

Mucha posters are lithographs. Just so that you know ;-)
Also the grand illustrated fairytale books that were one of the greatest inventions of the Victorian era :-D

(not really, but - I do adore Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham and the others...)

Also, the modern printing technique is in all practicality just another form of lithography. Even though you use photography and computers to produce the "stone" of flexible metal, and bend it into a cylinder for pressing, it's still the same idea...