Printing giant leaves.
I was walking home from a successful trip to Goodwill last week and I spotted some huge palm fronds in my neighbor’s garden trash. After checking that was ok with her I came home to get my garden snips and walked back to harvest a couple of pieces. When I got home I left them in water for a couple of days until I had a clear time slot and a clear table. I gathered some large sheets of paper and some smaller papers including rice paper, corrugated cardboard, brown kraft paper, ledger paper, book paper from a vintage garden catalogue and of course dry wax paper. I used a combination of gelli plate and adding paint directly to the leaves to print them, both worked well but I wish there was a giant gelli plate!!! See! Very big leaves!! Once everything had dried, I wanted to make a book or two using my newly printed papers. One book was made with a single sheet of printed paper folded into an accordion. I glued the backs …
