Monoprinting on Gelplate

 I spent the afternoon mono printing with a simple template.  When I was printing these I was  aiming for a loose impressionist look. 

I am going to cut some of these up to include in my quote journal.

It was a lot of fun trying different approaches and techniques on the same subject. I used brushes, rollers, q tips and my fingers at times to apply the paint.

 I have started a you tube channel with the same name as my blog.

Her are the links to my most recent videos.

Gel Print Therapy

coffee dying paper

Gel Print Journal

Gel Print Jewelry

Borders Gel Print

 Recent work

 I have started posting videos on YouTube so I can answer questions. Someone asked me how to get even borders on their gell prints and I found it easier to video tape while I did it than explain it in a text message. Please check out my two videos. The first one was a struggle but it is getting easier.

Links for videos

Gell plate border 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDEFLx4b-28&t=19s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CTezg8grpo

 

Journal Pages

Just a few Pages I am working on,,,,

Art Journal Part 2

I have my art journal already to take on our next camping adventure. We are going to be camping at Jamaica Beach RV resort in Galveston  for a few days.

I made up the signature for the book from drawing and mixed media paper combined with gelli printed and tea died card stock and sewed it in the cover with a simple pamphlet stitch. Then I glued in a few illustrations from the original book, I left a lot of space blank for doodling and adding art later.

I covered the book with gelli print paper and added the little man from the book and an elastic closure with a lampwork bead.

I am so looking forward to using the book on our trip.

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Starting New Nature Journal

So I found a book at Goodwill that is the perfect size to make a little art journal to fit in my purse to take camping with me. It is about 8 and 3/4 by 7 and 1/2 inches. 

It is a children's book in Spanish with damage to the inside cover and writing on a few pages but the spine and covers are intact. As you can see it has lovely illustrations that I will keep for inspiration.

I took out the pages and planned on making one register with mixed pages of watercolor, drawing and mixed media page from these pads.

In the end I decided the water color paper was too thick so I left that out and added some graph paper.

I made the graph paper just a bit smaller than the pages. The pages are 8 by 14 folded so they fit way beneath the book cover. I may add some envelope or pocket pages before I sew it to the spine.

 

I glued some printed tissue to the inside covers that I plan on decorating later.

This is where it is right now. When it dries I will get the pages sewn in and leave the cover to decorate last.