Monday, January 20, 2014

I'm Gellin...

I'm having a bit of time off today for MLK Day and really should work on work stuff but having creative time instead.

I pulled out my Gelli plate and started playing. Needed some inspiration so checked out Pinterest for a bit and saw a new video available from Gelli with some great tips for painting layers. Check it out here.







I decided to give it a whirl but with a tree. I'm not done but here's my progress.






These are the other two I started. Hopefully more play time next weekend.

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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Art Journaling with a twist...

So much fun yesterday! Started the day with driving through a monsoon to pick up my bestie Rebecca and then head to art journaling with Mary Freeman.

The challenge was to decorate a box to hold thoughts and dreams for 2014 to be opened at the end of the year. I haven't sat down to work on a perspective for 2014 but the box is ready.






Trixie thought the card board would make a good chew toy.









After class Rebecca and I met up with Mom and Sis (Sherri) for lunch and then Sis and I finally went to see The Hobbit. Loved it but it was funny when the entire audience protested at the ending that left us all hanging.

After the movie we headed back to Rebecca's to collect a table and chairs she gave Sherri and to help her put together one of those metal shelving units. Of course after getting all that done, table delivered and errands run it was te to eat again. All in all a good day with creative time, fun and fellowship.

Last weekend I also played with the Gelli Plate and created some monoprints I forgot to post. Probably going to do more with them but here are their current states.



This one is ghost prints.





On this one I outlined the stencil image in white to highlight it. My next step is to see if I want to add some collaging to it.

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