I chose the most sophisticated of my stencils to try on the fibre based photo paper. I have two prints of each of the images above, so I have a spare to test toning techniques. Each of the prints has a brown tone to give a more a natural appearance, but I will try painting on the spares to see what other effects I can create.
After a few tests, these were the outcomes of my stencil idea. Being pleased with this, I have cut more and more stencils of various creatures to try. I ordered a fibre based photo paper pack instead of the usual glossy photo paper. This will give the photos a more natural finish.
I've the idea of creating stencils of different types of insects and bugs and placing them on photo paper while exposing. These pages present my testers for this technique.
These are a couple of test paintings in practice for a triptych a plan to make from my butterflies. The test is purely to see how well I could work with a new water colour palette.
I enjoy slab building more than most ceramic processes, and found that a dragonfly wing would be an exciting challenge. Above is my outcome from the technique, and I'm thoroughly pleased with it. I intend to make a couple more to add to this.
These are the latest images of the caterpillars. For this set, I focused on the change of a caterpillar to a chrysalis. The images here are my most successful.
These are the latest images I took of my butterflies upon releasing them. Three had flown away too quickly for me to capture any images, but two of them had lingered around the grassy area of my garden.
I recently purchased more caterpillars as to improve the current work I already have.
