I have been taking daily walks in the woods by the lake. I take photos but they don’t really capture the connection that I feel.
Yesterday, I decided to play with printing trees with torn paper stencils and the gelatin plate. Torn paper has a wonderful ragged and organic edge.
I wanted to create an abstract and somewhat natural feel to the printed woods scapes.
I experimented with speedball water based block printing ink and a little bit of acrylic. The first impression gave me the very dark background with white tree shapes. The second impression produced lovely light spot trees, similar to a birch tree.
I was having fun, but I wanted to create more range of value and some darker tree shapes. The printing session was a bit up and down with being pleased with the prints and being frustrated. That is usual for me.
I printed a second day and was pleased with some of the prints. I glued several into an accordion book and then did some collage and doodling.
Even though they are just torn paper stencils, I think I will save them for another day of printing.
Happy Printing!
