Part 2:

Gabriella certainly worked us hard and shared a ton of information and samples with us.

Trapping Plant Material:

This was interesting.  I had some very dry, flattened, plant material which was suitable to be trapped between gauze layers.  I went through the process, glued and applied shellac as shown and was amazed to find that colour had leached out from my browned, dried, dead plants.  The green really came through.

Above: The centre stem was dead and grey/brown.  Now you can see the tiny leaves have reverted to green and even the stalks have some colour.

The larger leaves were dried and grey but now look fresh and green again.

Left: This plant root was dried, trapped and then sepia oil ink was applied to give definition to the texture.  The gauze was crumpled when drying to form the folds.

Items can be trapped between different materials creating a range of effects.

Above: Trapping the twig.  After the sample is dry, having been fully sealed.  String trapped in tissue with burn holes.  Tutor samples.

We then went on to explore creating collagraphs.