Celebrating Spring Flowery Stencils!

Although the glitter doesn't show up very well on the first art sample below, I'll launch today's post with it because making it helped in welcoming a long-awaited spring!  Before introducing the squeeze-bottle glitter-glue, I placed mt 6" x 6" stencil Budding Branches on a 6" x 6" greeting card blank and sprayed the surface with green watercolor in a mister bottle. 

The photo below shows a stretched canvas, this one imprinted with 9" x 12" Thistles as well as 6" x 6" Thistles Small.  The tall thistle prints (dark green) were muted with layers of paint added after the prints had been made.  The  prints made with 6" x 6" Thistles Small were made with yellow paint.

Still more flower prints ....

In making the print below, I first covered an old encyclopedia page with a layer of Golden Titanium White acrylic paint.  After that had dried, I used red-orange acrylic paint with my 6" x 6" stencil Silhouette of a Wildflower Bouquet.  In the very center of this image, you can see a subtle print of a flower that was an illustration in this pre-1923 encyclopedia.  (Clicking on the image below, you can enlarge it to better see detail.) 

Today's final pair of prints was made with two of my 9" x 12" stencils -- Mimosa and Thistles.  Foreign newsprint was my substrate; some of its lettering is still visible in both backgrounds below --

  

In its entirety, the 9" x 12" stencil Thistles looks like this --

Mimosa Stencil in its 9" x 12" version looks like this --

(Its companion, Mimosa 6 Stencil, measures 6" x 6".)

The art sample below started life as a sheet of newsprint that I was using to clean stencils after using them elsewhere.  But I liked the results, so I added a frame with the edge of a paint-loaded sponge brayer.  This print was made with part of my 6" x 6" stencil Swatton Flowers Version 1 ...

In its entirety, Swatton Flowers Version 1 looks like this --

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Note:  Golden isn't the only brand of acrylic paint that I use, but it's my favorite.