Tag: botanicals

  • Not The Same Again

    Not The Same Again

    Following on from yesterday’s experiment, I have been experimenting further with the basic idea, and different ways of achieving the result. I used pan pastels on this one, which loses some of the transparency, so I am not convinced. You have to be careful when you are harvesting a few leaves for the gel plate,…

  • Act on Ideas

    Act on Ideas

    One thing leads to another, as always, and yesterdays foraging in the jungle of my garden, which led to some gel prints recording my favourite leaves, led to more foraging and more gel printing, which led to this idea that I’m experimenting with in my sketchbook. It’s rough, and needs tweaking, refining, and a change…

  • Gardening, kind of.

    Gardening, kind of.

    I’m loving what I achieved in my studio yesterday. I walked into the room this morning and was immediately inspired by the sense of having more space. I went out in the garden today and selected some leaves from what some people might consider weeds, but I consider garden friends, and used them to make…