LEAF PRINTS
Intro: LEAF PRINTS
I was recently working on a series of mono-prints of the 4 seasons using leaves and an etching press. I began to photograph the leaves I was using at different stages of the printmaking process. I created a collection of what I think are pretty interesting images as well as turing 12 of them into each month for a calendar.
STEP 1: How It Began
To make the mono-prints I was rolling ink on pieces of plexi glass. Then I would place the leaves on the plexi and run them through the etching press to ink them. Next I would carefully peel the inked leaves from the plexi and arrange them on my paper the way I wanted them to "offset" . Sometimes I would re-ink a leaf with a different color to get mixture of ink that I liked. Eventually I noticed that the plexi plates at different stages with and without the actual leaves still on them were pretty interesting so I began to make photos of them as well. I used my i-phone camera. The images were pretty cool on their own and on some I used an app called Romantic Photo, and others I used an app called Auto Painter.
STEP 2: Calendar
I ended up with a lot of interesting images that I thought would represent the different months of a calendar, so I made one.
STEP 3: January
January
STEP 4: February
February
STEP 5: March
March
STEP 6: April
April
STEP 7: May
May
STEP 8: June
June
STEP 9: July
July
STEP 10: August
August
STEP 11: September
September
STEP 12: October
October
STEP 13: November
November
STEP 14: December
December
STEP 15: Winter
This is one of the Winter monoprints, 24"X36"
STEP 16: Spring
Spring
STEP 17: Summer
Summer
STEP 18: Autumn
Autumn
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rachel pallis 11 years ago