Short and Sweet

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Remember this little print that I had initially rejected and then decided I liked?

The other day I couldn't settle on anything in the studio so went to the garden, gathered leaves and pressed them in a telephone book for a few hours. Rummaging through a file of "backgrounds" I discovered a few in similar colours to this one. Here are some test prints:

I inked the leaves with carbon black (an intense black) and hand-printed using the pressure of a hard rubber brayer and some judicial rubbing with a finger along the stems and veins. These are cranesbill leaves:

Sage:

Always think I'll remember what and where I picked -- but I don't! Not sure what these are:

Nor these:

:

Here's a group shot.

And paired with brown kraft envelopes which seem to go with the botanical look.

And that's it for this week's post. Maybe not sweet but definitely short!