A Caboose for the Last Post

One more laminated piece, to go with my last post -- it was made using two 9"X12" stencils, Trivet A9 and Mimosa  --

-- and someday it, too, will be cut or torn up to become part of a collage.

True Confessions...

 

Confession:  I have a lot of trouble making Gelli Plate prints that I really like.  For that reason, I've long been in the habit of saving my not-up-to-my-liking prints for future re-printing.  I've now got a stack that would rival Jack's beanstalk! 

 

Yesterday I cut up some white tissue paper (by Lineco; similar to "dry" wax deli paper but lacking any shine) and made a series of prints on it.  After they dried (a very short wait) I laminated most of these prints to sheets of the earlier Gelli Plate prints (which had been on newsprint, cardstock, etc.)

 

I chose to use matte gel medium to do this laminating, knowing it would leave a slightly "cloudy" layer between the tissue prints and the earlier prints on sturdy papers.  Next time, just to see the difference, I will use gloss gel medium.  It will dry totally transparent so the whitish nature of the tissue will completely disappear.  Either finished "look" is merely a matter of personal preference.

 

The above two pieces are now officially collages thanks to the laminating, but they still have a longer journey ahead.  They will be cut or torn into pieces for future collages on canvas, or for greeting card covers.

 

For the top piece I used my 9"X12" stencil Mimosa.

 

The second piece was created with my 9"X12" stencil Marbles9.

 

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9"X12" Stencil Mimosa Trots Onstage Again ...

Going thru my "Blog" folder just now, I discovered three unpublished images highlighting my 9"X12" stencil Mimosa.

Above:  This Gelli Plate print shows a double application of this stencil.  The original substrate was orange and white.  Atop that, I used the Gelli Plate to apply a layer of pale green acrylic, with the 9"X12" stencil.  For the next layer, with a darker green paint, I placed the same stencil on the Gelli Plate, placing it so that the leaf pattern would criss-cross the pale green Mimosa print.

The above example of the scraping technique was used in an earlier post, in its final form, which was as a background in a collaged greeting card cover.  Here it appears in its original form, when the fresh paint had been scraped over an old blueprint, which had been secured atop the 9"X12" Mimosa stencil with masking tape. 

Above:  a greeting card cover collaged with two examples of my scraping technique, described fully in other posts.  My 9"X12" Mimosa stencil was used for the image at the far left.  At far right is a scraping made from my 6"X6" Cats stencil.

The 9X12" Mimosa stencil is available here:

http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/l141.htm

The 6"X6" Cats stencil is here:

http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/Cats-Stencil-Cecilia-Swatton-p/s183.htm

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