Helicopters
Last week, during one of my trips to the hospital to visit my father, I saw a bunch of sycamore “helicopter” seeds laying in the road. They were so pretty that it seemed a shame for them to rot in the road so I scooped them up and took them home, to have a think how I could use them in a craft project. I gathered some maple leaves from my garden to go with them. It’s been a while since I used my Gelli plate so I thought I’d try to get a print from the foliage and seeds. I used a brayer to apply a thin layer of acrylic paint to the plate and arranged the foliage over. I used a scrap of paper to cover the foliage and pressed firmly all over the plate. After removing the paper, I then removed the foliage and brayered a layer of pale green paint over the plate. Whilst the paint was still wet, I placed a sheet of white card onto the plate and applied pressure all over with the brayer. When I lifted the card, I had this lovely print. I chopped the shee...