Gelli Plate and Haiku

I am in the middle of creating a book.  The pages are pages that I cut out of another book I picked up at Goodwill.  I cut the pages out and printed them with my Gelli Plate.  Then I created Haiku poems from phrases I cut out of books and magazines.  Haiku is 3 a line poem with the first line being 5 syllables, the second has 7 syllables, and the last contains 5 syllables.  I will do a bit more collage work on each before I bind them into a book.  Here are a few examples of my poems.

This one is one of my favorites.  I am an introvert and when I am at a large gathering, this is what it feels like to me.

Before and After

Last night I watched lesson 2 in Clara Sonheim's class.  I got carried away with adding stuff to my prints.  Here are some before and after pictures.  I am not showing the really dreadful ones.

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First EVER prints with the Gelli Plate

I am taking Carla Sonheim's Gelli Plate Printing online class.  Here are my first ever gelli prints.  They are all 10"x14".  I hated them last night but this morning they look better. Still just a beginning.  Today we get the second lesson about how to add the next layers using stencils, stamps, and other texture stuff. 

Do you have a favorite so far?