The red and blue print was a kiwi fruit cut in half. It didn't have a great shape but you can just see the radiating lines from the centre of the fruit, when you get close up to it. I then got carried away and cut a mushroom in half and used that for the print on the blue paper.
The next section was potoato printing. Here again I had a bit of a problem as I don't really eat potatoes, the only ones I have are jacket potatoes so they are all quite large as you can see from my prints.
These are the first two prints done seperately to identify them.
Printing both prints together.
I then decided that the dot one was too big and didn't offer any interesting options so I cut it in two and used the two halves to print.
I like these two. The metalic paints are quite subtle on the painted background.
I then went on to the card printing. I actually made my shapes from funky foam as I find it easier to cut than card, expecially if you want curved shapes.
I used the card shape I had made earlier and then I cut it again but smaller.
These are my shapes.
Here I have printed more randomly and added the paler metallic paint. I like this print, I think the colours work well.
Here I printed stripes. The colours blended into each other to create their secondary colours but I found the red and yellow were the most difficult to blend into orange probably because I was adding yellow to the red.
Here I started with the turquoise blue and kept adding colours to the stamp to mix them. I didn't clean the stamp or the brushes although I did use different brushes for each colour. Taking a step back from all these prints and looking at them from a distance, I think they have worked out better than I thought. I can see patterns forming in the whit lines.
The piece on the left was one of my painted sheets that already had blue metallic paint on it. I then used a white metallic but the stamp still had some turquoise on it so I got this lovely pale blue colour.
The background is acrylic paint rollered on. I have then used the small stamp with a mixture of metallic and ordinary acrylics and printed them overlapping each other. I think I have overdone the printing, the first row looked quite delicate, almost like seaweed and I wanted to try and build on that idea.
I think that now might be the time to decorate my sketchbook cover!
