11 July 2019

Painting into my old leaf prints


Earlier in the spring, I made some leaf prints by boiling botanicals between sheets of watercolor paper. I am having a book making workshop in about a month and wanted to get my leaf prints done so I could incorporate them into a book.



On this print I thought I might outline the shapes of the plants but it just looked awkward so I stopped.


These leaves were so plain I thought the outline might work. Not so much. Then I decided to tint them with watercolors. Meh.


Painting the negative space was slightly more successful but still not great


Now I was getting a bit better at it.









While I was painting these I was boiling another set of prints. Stay tuned....

6 comments:

  1. Great experiments! Your last few are looking lovely!

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    1. Thanks. It started to get more fun when the results were better.

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  3. Fun to go through the process with you. The Iris with the orange yellows is perhaps my favorite...I love the rich gradations of color.

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    1. Believe it or not those were ferns unfurling!!

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