Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Project Number 2

A group of twelve members signed up for this project involving the Botanic Gardens for an exhibition titled "Diversity in Nature" :-Special plants of Mackay and the Whitsundays.
Each artists was allotted a plant and written information about the plant and we were allowed to create a print in any medium and style.

I chose a double plate print with the background developed from a vinyl lino plate and the main image from normal lino but smaller. 

This isn't how I loaded these  as the one below is the vinyl lino already cut and the print here.


Lino plate ready fro printing.

The finished image and I liked the two different colours.
The large veins  for the background are indicative of their life giving energy. My plant is the Mt .Blackwood Holly which  has a lovely trumpet shaped flower of the most beautiful cerise colour. The leaves and the sticky type stems interested me and the points on the leaves are so defined.

2 comments:

  1. Really well done! I love the way the leaves break out of the frame.

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  2. Thank you Roberta and this is one of my favourite pieces and it's nice to break the boundaries sometimes.

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