This week I spent an afternoon printing with my gelliplate! I tried some experiments and worked on printing some fat quarters of fabric for the next grevillea design ....

The experiments were inspired by a short online class with Carla Sonheim, that I purchased recently.

Carla's technique produces some lovely abstract monoprints with a landscape feel so I was keen to try it out. Here are some of the results ......

I think these have a lot of possibilities as backgrounds for a new idea I have .......

The fat quarters for the new grevillea design are printed using grevillea leaves and a couple of abstract stamps. I wanted a subtle, blended print without too much contrast, to use in the background. Printing fat quarters means repeated placement of the gelliplate and sometimes this results in a build up of paint in some areas. I tried lightly washing off the excess which worked very well and helped with the blended effect I was looking for .......

A good afternoons work I think!

Thanks for reading ......CC