On my watch: Learning the Joy of Botanical Print Making with Mary Scott Himes

By Anne W. Semmes

For the last two Wednesday afternoons Mary Scott Himes, the talented wife of our Greenwich based U. S. Congressman Jim Himes has opened the door to the art and beauty of creating botanical prints, and this writer was privileged to attend the first Wednesday on October 7, as held from 1-3 at the Perrot Memorial Library. And the learning was all free!

Upon arrival Mary had laid it all out for the eight of us, some botanical choices from her backyard “beloved weeds,” and an array of acrylic paint colors, and paint brushes. On two long tables she placed for each of us a rubbery, rectangular gel plate secured on paper we would paint with a dab of paint, then using a hand rolling brayer to spread

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