Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Leaf Mono Prints

Hello all!  I was hoping that this year I would make a start on time but unfortunately that didn't happen.

But now that I have, I am continuing my love affair with leaf mono prints.  I have used them for large and small calligraphic works including illuminated letters.  I have also used them for the covers of hand bound books and for greetings cards.  Now I have incorporated them into my contribution to ALAW.

I had considerable trouble photographing the letters.  The graphite keep turning to a sliver in the photo.







The letters (with thanks to the expert tutoring of Gemma Black at a workshop many months ago) are hand drawn versals using graphite pencil.

6 comments:

  1. Great work Lyndell, I love these! As much as I love the large sheets of plant-dyed papers the snippets are proving visually wonderful too. We are both working with snippets of our papers this ALaW.

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    1. Yes, plant dyed papers are great fun. I had fun with your versals too. I am finding that one versal at a time is so much easier than trying to get them in a group. They get unruly on me!

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  2. Wow! So those aren't actual leaves on the paper? They look great!

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  3. Thank you! I print the leaves using a steaming method. It is great fun. You can see how it is done on my blog.

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  4. Lovely and gentle and elegant all at once Lyndell. The Versals are holding up very well! Like Gemma - I do love snippets too.

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  5. These are beautiful! And I like the circular "framing" for each letter - it makes for a really nice composition.

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