More Gelli Plate Play

Previously, I'd stained a sheet of 140-lb. watercolor paper with blue watercolor; after that dried, I printed it with red acrylic paint using my 9"X12" stencil Twinship.  Today I've used that as a background for still more in my ongoing series of collages created with the use of stained stencils themselves.  The two stencils below were stained beautifully as I continued Gelli Plate printing yesterday.  I can always buy more stencils, and these were just too much to my liking for me to use them any further as tools.  They've come art.  I'll show them separately, then together:

Above:  My 4"X4" stencil Fern Fronds Silhouette.

Above:  My 6"X6" stencil Palm Fronds Silhouette Small -- which also comes in a 4"X4" size labeled Mini.

Above:  The two stencils together.  I like the way the larger stencil opens large on its upper right to frame an "eye" in the print from my Twinship stencil.

NEW NEW NEW Continues ... Palm Fronds Silhouette stencils in 2 Sizes ... and a Mary Beth Shaw Mini-Video

Today's post starts with the quick, easy technique of spraying paints thru stencils.  Here I'm using my 4"X4" stencil Palm Fronds Silhouette Mini but I could have substituted my 6"X6" Palm Fronds Silhouette Small.

First, the results of my original spray:

The next three photos show the results of a Photoshop experiment, combining the image above with backgrounds other than plain white. 

 

 

Using color and special effects Photoshop filters can be addicting, but the yield is a wide range of paper print-outs ready to be added to art journal pages, greeting card covers and collages. 

This post features only 2 of 6 just-released stencils continuing my line of botanical designs.  The other stencils are individually featured -- with other art-making techniques -- in my "NEW NEW NEW" cluster of posts.  To find the other posts in this cluster, click "Older Posts" at the bottom of this webpage. 

Also, please check out this video from Mary Beth Shaw --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92eYlr8T5c&feature=youtu.be