First, I did a bunch of Suminagashi prints using Sumi ink on rice paper to create some wonderfully swirling black and white images. Then, I cut them into smaller pieces, mounted them on black cardstock and then white cardstock to create 25 postcards from the group. Here are a couple of the group:
Then, I wanted to work in bright color for a while, so I did more postcards in some shiny acrylics - Maya Golds -- and stenciled some black dots on them.
The next two also used Maya Gold paints, but in this case, I first texturized the background using gesso through a piece of plastic grid from a bag of Stump Chunks.
While I had the gesso out and a messy palette knife, I applied some gesso to two watercolor paper pieces, and let it dry, then used watercolors over the top and spritzed black watercolor through a stencil. I then turned the ink-covered stencil upside down and printed the excess watercolor on the other card.
The next two are totally abstract color studies using watercolors and the little bit of black Sumi ink still remaining in my cup. I rather like the odd, ink-blot images that happened.
Two more, this time from some new sprays that I just got and wanted to see how they looked on paper. Some of the color formed pools, which I then moved around a bit, and finally accented with a bit of Stickles glitter glue.
I took the very last of the Sumi ink and covered a final piece of watercolor paper. I then did some "subtractive" stenciling (lifting color back off the paper through the stencil) painted the revealed areas a lime green in sort of a haphazard way, and finally created fireworks with some rose-colored Stickles glitter glue.
Sum: 36 postcards ready to go. Whew! And it is amazing how quickly the day passed here in the studio.
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