Fabulous Blogs

Blogs that I saved for a closer look this week:

Linda provides wonderful posts, tutorials, tips and videos to help with gelatin printing on Printmaking Without a Press.

These Gelli Print collages on Jessica Sporn Designs are definitely miracles and magic!

This has me tempted to try some "protractor art".

Some great examples of what gesso can do for you over at Help [Me] Ronda.

Geninne is giving away a copy of her yummy looking new book!

Gelli Plate Artist Trading Card

Whenever I make artist paper of any kind, I ask myself, "So, what are you going to do with that?  Will it end up in a file/box/baggie with all of the other artist and scrapbook papers?"  This question haunted me long before I bought a Gelli Plate and prevented me from buying one earlier.

So, almost as soon as I made a print or two I had to do something with them.

Playing with Silhouettes

I've been playing with silhouettes this week.  They make great images for gelli plate printing and for journals.

I made a stencil and a mask at the same time by gluing a magazine image onto chipboard and cutting it out with a craft knife.  On the left page I applied gesso around the mask, and on the right side I applied gesso through the stencil.

This is a spread in my old book journal.  The background is spritzed watercolour through stencils

Silly Scraps Saturday

This is a simple collage made of scraps, done in my Scrap Journal.  I made my Scrap Journal with my Bind-It-All, especially to hold these "warm-up" collages.  When I want to make something but I'm not inspired to do anything specific, I make one of these.  One usually leads to two (or more).  I got the idea from iHanna's "Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook" post.

Every Saturday I post one of these simple collages.  Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you are enjoying the weekend!

This Week's Links

Here are some links that stopped me for a second look this week:

I like this Journal Page Tutorial from Radish Blossoms.  It explains clearly how and why she did certain things as she completed this journal page.

I love the alcohol resist that Vivian shows here.

I highly recommend The Journal Fodder Junkies Workshop.  One of the things I love about this work is the use of squares/rectangles on the backgrounds.  I love the transparency of all the layers too.

Here's a new blog from Trish Bee.  She makes over old techniques.  Very cool!

Here's a quote worth remembering!

I Bought a Gelli Plate

Drawing is on hold while I create some prints and get it all out of my system.  I'll try not to bore you with too many.

We're having a heat wave here on the Wet Coast and I can only work in my attic office/studio in the morning.  After that I melt into a puddle.  Gelli printing is a basement activity and it is nice and cool down there!

Missy

Missy is a bit judgmental sometimes.  Either that or she is sucking marbles.

Missy was drawn in my old book journal, using Pan Pastels.  The pastel part was easy.  Drawing is a bit hard in this book because I can't see the drawing very well until I add the colour.  But this leads to some interesting characters, like Missy.

Happy Canada Day!