I ordered a few new stencils, designed by Elizabeth St Hilaire, from Joggles recently. I’ve got a few sets by Elizabeth and love them all. This time I got the Picasso mask and stencil set, and a few individual stencils. I had a play today, and think I’m going to get a lot of use from these.
In my last post I said I’d given away all my gelli prints. During the week I bought some Golden Open acrylics – they’re expensive here in New Zealand but great for gelli printing. I choose a few favourite colours; black, titan buff, red, titan pale green (celadon), dark violet and anthraquinone blue.
I got out my Elizabeth St Hilaire stencils, plus a few old favs from StencilGirl, and got to work. I wanted some graphic prints, and stronger lines. I made about 50 prints, using a mix of Hahnemuhle Sumi e and Sketch rice paper.
I love the Gelli plate as an artist’s tool. Mine are all Gelli Arts brand, but I don’t think there’s a lot of difference between the brands other than the plate sizes. I use the gelli plate to make papers for collage and, when the stars align, I make finished artworks.
I use Hahnemuhle Sumi e rice paper, Yasutomo rice sketch paper, deli paper, Dina Wakley Media collage paper, tissue and cheap copier paper. I use a brayer, mostly Liquitex or Golden paints, and some of the time I use stencils – I particularly love the Elizabeth St Hilaire collection from Joggles.com
Recently I gave away my stash of gelli prints to fellow artists in a wonderful FB group run by talented New Zealand artist Froyle Davies. Why? It’s fun to send envelopes off to other artists, and it’s good to refresh your collage materials sometimes.
Yesterday I grabbed a gelli plate, paints and stencils and got to work – 110 gelli prints later I have a new pile of prints with a different feel – I’m excited to start using them.
Tony has been home for days in a row; yesterday I took him to see his friend Len who isn’t doing so well,. Tony had a rough night and was super tired today – we need to watch next weekend that we do even less.
I haven’t had a lot of art time, but managed to squeeze some inky finger time in today. I’ve been making gelli print papers with my new Klimt inspired stencils by Elizabeth St Hilaire for Joggles.com. I’ve worked on deli paper and Hahn sumi-e rice paper. Once that was done I played in my 6×6 Dina Wakley art journals for a couple of hours. Some of the pages are cut and extended so the writing looks odd unless you see it in person.
Cath Sheard Art 