Playing with Grasmoor

Grasmoor is a large lump of a mountain, with a reddish hue that glows bronze in the evening light. It is really striking and we had great views of it last week from our Loweswater round walk ....

I really want to develop some ways of effectively combining print and stitch, so these are some small scale experiments. 

This is the image I was working from: 

First a collagraph plate and print were made: 

The print was hand coloured with water colour: 

Then I printed the collagraph and added colour by the chine colle technique. The brown was printed onto layout paper and was from acrylic ink on a gel plate. 

Lettering was added using chine colle, but it moved as I didn't have the correct glue ...which has now been ordered! 

I then moved on to fabric. The collagraph was printed onto wet strength tissue paper and incorporating colour by chin colle, it was stuck onto fabric - using CMC paste. 

This was then embroidered: 

And finally, I printed the collagraph plate onto a synthetic sheer fabric, hand stitched and then hand coloured with acrylic ink: