This is my drypoint plate and my etching tool which I used to draw the lines into the plastic. |
This is one of my first test prints. I've hand coloured it with gold ink. |
My chicken wire stencil, which looks like honeycomb when printed. The stencil is made of plastic not wire, so it doesn't damage the gelli plate. |
You can see from the images below that each print becomes a one-of-a-kind artwork even though the drypoint bee image is repeated in each one.
With the monoprint in the background, I was aiming for an impression of a hive. In some prints the paint is a lot brighter and the imagery sharper than in others. And that's what I love about monoprinting - no two prints are ever the same.
I recently signed up for updates from your site, but was away when this hit my inbox, which I am cleaning up now. THIS is terrific. So charming, and it is giving me lots of inspiration, stencil-wise.
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