gelli play

Inspired by Linda Germain and her use of masks and shapes, I puled a few prints tonight to see if I could plant the technique in my brain.  She uses lots of animal/people silhouettes and I didn't take the time to make any of those (but I will).  Instead I went out and pulled a leafy branch from the garden and experimented with that.  Got pretty light impressions, but kinda cool.

Then, I found this plastic sheet thing in my stash that I think is meant to texture foil etc.but makes great gelli impressions.  Then I overprinted the grid with random cutout shapes for a mask.

I made my stripey stamp with cut out shapes glued on to an old hairspray bottle then just rolled it through the paint.

I will be using plant masks more - just need to dial in how much paint to put on, etc.  If you're not familiar with Linda's site, it's worth a visit - lots of videos etc showing her techniques.  I'm linking this up to Carolyn's Gelli party......