Cecilia Swatton: Flowers are Blooming

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Flowers are Blooming

Today's first art sample was printed on a page from a pre-1929 set of encyclopedias, a page that came with its own floral illustration, which now sits happily in the background behind a red curtain of translucent red acrylic paint....

Above: Printed with 6" x 6" Silhouette of a Wildflower Bouquet

Above: The top embellishment was printed with my 9" x 12" stencil Boxed Vines, which in its entirety looks like this --

9" x 12" stencil Boxed Vines

Below: an old printed paper (based on a photo of a sawed-off tree stump) has new life as a background for a print made with my 9" x 12" mask Garden Montage --

Above: Printed with 9" x 12" Garden Montage, which in its entirety looks like this --

9" x 12" Garden Montage

Above: Top print made with 9" x 12" Garden Montage. Underneath print was made with Nosegay Stencil (9" x 12") -- which looks like this--

Above: Nosegay Stencil (9" x 12")

Below: Two prints made with my 6" x 6" Quilted Flower Garden --

The second print made with my 6" x 6" Quilted Flower Garden was done on Yupo that had previously been printed with a 9" x 12" mask from StencilGirl -- Circle Tile, designed by Mary Beth Shaw.

Below is another print done on a page from a pre-1929 set of encyclopedias, a page that came with two of its own floral illustrations. Swatton Flowers Version 1 is the stencil that was put to work:

Below: Today's final art sample is the cover of a greeting card. The small paper (top layer) of this collage was made with my 9" x 12" mask Garden Montage (shown in its entirety earlier in this post.) Garden Montage was used to make an over-print (in aqua acrylic paint.) The under-print (orange and yellow acrylic paints) was made with my 9" x 12" mask Prayer Flags.

The bottom layer of this greeting card collage was over-printed (in gray acrylic paint) with my 6" x 6" mask Sprigs. The under-print (in yellow and red acrylic paint) was created with my 9" x 12" mask Winter Berries.