I’ve joined the #colourmepositive challange on FaceBook – week one’s theme is gratitude. The journal I’m working in is 8×8″. Here’s the cover and first page challange.
Author: Catherine Barker-Sheard
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Accidental success
As I finished each set of Gelli Prints the other I cleaned my plate by covering it in white or off-white paint, laying down my paper and letting it dry. When you pull the dry print, all the old paint comes off. Often these are interesting prints, with little bits of colour and ghostly shadows of what has come before.
These two really appeal to me, with their pale colours and little dabs of paint. Typically, I had used the back of some printing proofs – now I wish I had pulled them on better paper!
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Making collages
I’m entering the 18th International Collage Exhibition and Exchange – I’ve entered ICE before and recommend it. Dale Copeland does an amazing job of all the organisation and the work you get back is fabulous. I started making collages a few days ago and finished a few today; at least, I think they are finished — we’ll see! It’s a funny thing, I’m not Christian but there’s always some religious iconography sneaks into my collages, and this time I seem to have a thing for circles and egg shapes. It’s not a planned theme – I grab papers, scissors and glue and then put my brain in quiet mode while I create.
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Gelli play – making painted paper
I’ve been playing with my Gelli Plate, a bunch of Stencil Girl stencils and some Dylusions paint to make painted paper. I like the Dylusions paint for gelli printing – it gives good coverage and doesn’t dry too quickly, even in the hot weather. Oddly enough, it dries fast in my art jounal. These painted papers have at least 2 layers, some have 4 layers, of paint. The prints will be cut up for card making or kept for in my art journal, collage projects, etc.
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Gelli print cards
This afternoon I tried out a technique I’d seen on the Gelli Arts youtube channel. It didn’t go quite go as planned; the weather was too hot and I didn’t have Golden Open (slow drying) paints – but the idea is good and one I’ll come back to. As I worked I cleaned my brush off on a spare piece of cardstock.
The prints weren’t good enough to use on their own, but cut up with a stitched-edge die (thanks for the loan Denise) they made great general use greeting cards. Scanning them made me realise how dirty the scanner glass is, but you get the idea…
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