Edgar Degas’s 1890’s countryside monotypes of cliffs and pathways, and Monet’s luminous oil paintings of the Creuse Valley in 1889, for me, recalled the edge environment of lower Cape Cod. Studies in en plain air painting in 1986-87 with Lois Griffel in Provincetown contributed to my understanding of mixing colors of paint. I learned how to create luminosity by layering colorful inks, and began to make impressionist monotypes in my printmaking studio as well as paint plein air oil paintings from direct observation. I use Charbonnell oil base etching ink applied with small rubber brayers for my monotypes, a process described in more detail in Cape Cod Life Arts issue 2009. Each monotype is a painting transferred from a smooth plexiglass plate to paper, once only.