More Botanicals.

With Melbourne being in the grip of a heat wave, the time normally spent working in the vegetable garden, has been spent playing with printing plants (botanicals) on my Gelatine plate. Here are a few more new images.

It's always tricky to decide when enough is enough! Too many layers and the print is a muddy mess, and too few layers and the print can appear too simple. Although there are three layers in the print above, I feel that there are too many open spaces. However, with the addition of a stamp or two that may not be the case.

                  This I feel is not successful! The grasses are too pale against the background.

While this print is fairly simple, I really like the colour and texture on some of the leaves. The blue on the leaves is left from a previous print and the paint was still wet.

Although fairly cluttered, I quite like this one, with some leaves appearing quite distinct and some appearing more complex.

Time for Printing Again.

 It seems a very long time since I posted anything here......in fact is IS a long time! Here we are in mid January 2025 and this is my first post for the year. I haven't been idle however, just snowed under with domesticity and a partner's ill health. It was lovely to get back to printing on a gelatine plate, inspired by  an online course that I enrolled in presented by Kim Herringe, a wonderful teacher and artist from Queensland. Her lessons are extremely well organised, very well delivered and very inspirational. Below are a few prints that I made last week following her lessons.

                                                 It was a good start to an other artistic year.