Blodeuwedd Stamping Tests

So I've had this idea for Blodeuwedd kicking around for a while, I was wanting to do something inspired by Laovaan specifically this painting: Waves of Nature and I thought I'd throw in some of Kelogsloops' style as well. Except for one thing....I love the look of flowers and leaves in paintings but I get bored quickly of painting them. So I was trying to think of ways of giving most of her hair a plant based feel without hand painting each leaf, my mum suggested I  have a look at Ann Blockley's art. So my neat and controlled Laovaan inspiration wandered off a bit and Kelogsloops vanished completely. But at least I didn't need to paint leaves.

I'm not completely sure what this technique is called, and at the time I also want quite sure how to do it. I ended up doing a lot of tests with different objects, the feathers, grasses and hair being by far my favourites and something I think I'll use again.

The basic idea is you wet your paper, either with water or watercolour paint, lay your object down, add more paint on top and then a heavy weight to hold it all down as it dries.

(Side tip: I use sellotape to square off arias to stop my tests wandering into each other. Either use really old tape or stick it onto you hand first just so it looses enough stickiness to come back off the paper once everything is dry. )

The most important thing I found was to add more paint once the object was down, either on top or around. It can be a little difficult to tell how much paint is actually on your paper, it tends to hide underneath the object. 
I found in some cases once I lifted up the object there was a white patch underneath if the object was too large or hard to get in the middle of, this was worse for the ones I didn't do wet on wet. 
It takes a little practice to judge how much paint there is underneath, I tend to go overboard but that can cause really dark lines or make your object stick or rip. 
I tend to do wet on wet really wet but for this I didn't notice it mattering too much. 

Still very much learning how to make this work how I want it to.