my friend, the late Lynn Bunis, who left me some of her (pretty huge) stash when she died some years ago. I still have quite a bit of her fabric, but I also have one or two of her hand carved stamps. One in particular, a leaf shape, I've never used; the leaf had too little detail for my liking. But yesterday, while clearing up another section of the Little Green Shed, I came across it amongst my linocuts.
It occurred to me that I could easily add more detail. What's more, I knew that Lynn would have egged me on to do just that, had she been here...so reader, I did.
Here's the leaf itself; I liked its shape, but just felt that there was too big a print area in the leaf itself...so carefully carved out some detail, echoing the existing curves. Then, I tried it out...
In both cases, I've layered the print, using different shades of green. The piece above is an A4 monoprint; the piece below, a watercolour postcard using two leaf prints. The bottom one I carved from a piece of the block that was very loose, so I cut it off and carved a leaf into its rather odd semi triangular shape. Waste not, want not, as they say... I'm sure Lynn would approve.
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