Post #96 - Jen Worden Weekly Challenge

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Well, I am all in the mood for challenges at the moment, so thought I would give Jen Wordens Weekly Challenge a go. Click on Jens name to visit her blog. Jen has amazing work and details all her techniques.
This weeks was creating monoprints, using a sheet of glass as a printing plate.

This is my first attempt, I decided to make a circle template, that you can see in the 2nd photo. I had thought that by adding a base of gesso to my glass and then the colours on top I would get a more muted shade of colours. Not so!! The gesso had very little effect at all! The colous I used were all Golden, Quin NA Gold, NA Yellow, Quin Crimson and Paynes Gray.

This is the stencil and another sheet that I used with Titanium White as a base. Has toned the colours down slightly. I only used the Quin NA Gold and NA Yellow on this one. I am actually really happy with the effect on the stencil.

This is 3 sheets I Created from one plate, just adding a bit more paint to each one to slightly change the effect.

This is the first plate using Ultramarine Violet and Irrid. Silver. I stamped in to the wet paint using a Fleur De Lis stamp.


To this one I added a bit of Micaceous Iron Oxide and blended it with my fingers. I then drizzled a little Irrid. Silver before laying my paper on to the plate.

This is the final one from the plate. I added a few drops of Paynes Gray to one side and then dragged it through the rest of the paint with my painters comb. I think this one is my favourite, even though it stuck to the plate a bit when I lifted it off. I think I will use these as background in my Gothic Arch Challenge, kill two birds with one stone, so to speak!!