Boiling Water
This year I learned to make nature prints. A nature print is a unique and unexpected way to imprint a botanical impression onto paper. Here is one of my favorites. I love the darkness juxtaposed with the leaves. It looks almost photographic. Although I am new at this, the unusual process really does the work of reproducing the beauty. Can you guess how this paper took on this impression? What do you think? This print started with a piece of carefully chosen paper- paper that the artist knows will hold the natural dye coming from the leaves, paper that will record and hold the image accurately and paper that has the strength to survive the process. Leaf wrap Placing the leaves on the selected paper, I sandwich them with another piece of quality paper. Then beginning at one end of the sandwich, I roll it up around a copper tube, as tightly as I can so the leaves cannot slip out and their surface is in close contact with the