Thursday, December 31, 2015

Dendritic Monoprinting

When someone in the mail-art exchange group made several post cards with this technique, I just had to learn more about it.  I was referred to a Shannon Green you-tube, also one by Cat Hand.  It looks like I almost had the effect while using the Gelli Plate Printer and a circles stencil in this example:

 The pattern reminded me of blood vessels inside the human eyeball.

Here are some experiments with acrylic paints between a plate of glass and a rigid plastic top layer.  I can't help but think of coral or seaweed.
Starting with dots of paint... Several layers

Paints spread with a paint brush



Two layers of printing

Multiple layers of printing

Three and two layers of printing

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