Gelli prints with leaves….5 prints

Gathered some leaves while on my daily walk through the park with Stewie…..

Then of course I had to try some gelli printing…I saw this beautiful textured photograph that served as my inspiration. You can check it out here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/prairiejill/6209411989/

It looked like it could have been done by gelli-printing so I decided to try it.

Needless to say, nothing really worked to look like the effect in the photo, but I got 5 interesting prints, all multilayered using the leaves as resists and then ghosts. I will crop them down to the “good parts” and print them onto fabric eventually.

So, these are the 5 prints:

You will notice that I used the same leaves over and over again- I think the acrylic paint coating will help to preserve them, for even more printing.

Poor Stewie- I told him I would only be about 10 minutes….and 2 hours later…..Australian Shepherds are smart, so they know when they are being toyed with…..I think we need to form Gelli-Printers Anonymous to deal with our addictions!

 

2 extra prints added later: see here on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coolquilting/9020497396/