Cecilia Swatton

 6" x 6" LOVE may at first glance appear to be a stencil that can be used only one way, since it's text, not an abstract image or a representational image -- but ...

... I've experimented in several directions.  One of those adventures has been in making double- and triple-prints.

The double print above started on 12" x 12" scrapbook paper that had come in pale green with a stylized flowery pattern.

I continued making LOVE prints atop one another ....

Until I switched to using another 6" x 6" stencil, Quilted Flower Garden --

And after using Quilted Flower Garden twice, I decided to stop.  For the time being, at least, the piece looks like this:

I may very well come back in with one final print of LOVE, thus bringing the word back into readable focus.  If I do, I'll make that print in bright, opaque white acrylic paint.  (Titanium White by Golden Paints is my favorite.)

More experiments happen when I bring my prints into Photoshop and blend them digitally.  

My first digital foray started with the below print, made on watercolor paper using LOVE alongside 6" x 6" Sassy Spray and 6" x 6" Looking Up Through Trees Small. (Both Sassy Spray and Looking Up Through Trees Small had been previously cut from their original square frames.)

The digital blend created this image:

Above:  The overlay print of purple LOVE had started as a separate print, looking like this --

-- and I'd made that print using part of my 9" x 12" stencil Boxed Vines.  Its background paper was glossy cardstock monoprinted with water-diluted purple acrylic paint.  This type of monoprinting is called decalcomania.

In its entirety, Boxed Vines looks like this:

And Sassy Spray looks like this before being cut from its 6" x 6" frame --

And, before being cut from its 6" x 6" frame, Looking Up Through Trees Small looks like this:

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