I rooted around in the garden for a selection of leaves for my recent adult education session on Gelli plate printing. The delicate leaves at the top are from a dwarf lilac, Flowerfesta Pink, that is still growing new leaves in mid-September. The ones at the bottom from the hardy evergreen ivy. Although sceptical about gel plates at first, I’m enjoying using them with botanical subjects.

I’m using a Gelli Arts plate with Liquitex heavy body acrylic paints. I used Dioxazine Purple, Pthalocyanine Blue and Hookers Green for the leaves (first layer) and Titanium White for the background (second layer).