"Playful Pages"

Subtitle: Transparent Photos

I looked closely at the frost in the grass this morning...and spied this clover leaf surrounded with ice crystals. It made me smile.

One of my motivations for making double sided gelli prints is to use them in my handmade art journals. So using some of my recent powder prints...I'm going to assemble another little journal following along with a class with Rebecca Chapman's.

I enjoy Rebecca's loose style and her use of hand painted papers and transparent black and white photography. I signed up for her Playful Pages mini course a while back....I watched the videos but never actually made a journal using her technique. Now it the time....we'll see how it goes. I struggle being loose....but I'm going to try.

In this Instagram post Rebecca features some of her mini collages using black and white transparent photos. I love her use of the photos!

It all starts with prep work...and preparing some cohesive papers was a start. I also needed to print some of my photographs in black and white on tissue paper. 

Rebecca showed us her way...but I did it my way by taping the tissue to a sheet of computer paper and run it through the printer with the tape side heading in first. It works great! 

I put the pressed ferns right on my pinter bed and photocopied them. I forgot to change it to black and white so the first print is green.  It actually looks like the ferns are sitting right on the tissue! 

I like the nice clean background rather than the grayed backgrounds from the photos above. So I think I will play with the settings in photos to lighten background....or I can remove it entirely in my Pages program. It's time to play...for Playful Pages. 

I'll keep you posted.