For a swap on Swap-Bot I got out my Gelli Plate and stencils to play around with. This swap hosted was by Gina Visione at The Print Shop group and called "Nature's Beauty". The goal was to "Send a Gelli-printed, hand-stenciled (or nature-stenciled :D!), hand carved Rubber stamp or Linocut mail art postcard representing something beautiful in nature."
So I took one of my new nature themed stencils, Birds and tree by Clarity combined with encouraging scribbles from Stencilgirl Products and Stars from the 101 stencils by Ed Roth and made the above print with help of my Gelli plate. I printed it on vintage index paper which has a beige undertone and it's a great way to reuse some old papers I saved from the trash at work! It needed some more colors so I took out some fountain pen inks and added more color to the print.
I used some contrasting colors: yellow for the inner circle (Toucan Gold) and a teal/twilight color (Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo) for the outer edge of the print to give it a night sky feeling. I love how the tree just pops out from the print. I love how it turned out and am glad that my partner liked this print as well,
Looking forward to use more of my gelli printed pages in mail art and in my art journal :)
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
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Met de kleuren van de 2e heb ik het meest...maar beiden mooi en apart!
ReplyDeleteJe mailartkaart is zaterdag binnen gekomen en staat boven m'n werktafel in m'n hobbykamer als inspiratie! Ben er super blij mee! Dank je wel! Groetjes, Gerrina