Black is a paint color I rarely use on my Gelli Plate but every now and again I do. So I cleaned off my brayer in my vintage journal like I do with the rainbow of colors I usually use. And it sat. And sat. Most of my other colors get lost or look muddy [...]
Art Journaling
This word has been popping into my mind, heart, and life a lot lately which means it pops into my art. I keep getting reminders from the universe how wonderful my friends are. Speaking of friends, today is a Stencil Test Drive for Jessica Sporn’s stencil, Apple and [...]
The sun is shining, the grass is green, and the peonies will be blooming any day now! In honor of spring, I am working in greens. I usually work in a full rainbow of colors so I wasn’t sure how this would turn out… A background made long ago that sparked the green theme. [...]
I used to fight making mistakes. Pointing out all my imperfections to myself with a strong dose of harsh judgement. No shocker that being creative often ended in frustration for me back then. But it doesn’t any more. Why? I just say Oops. This is a random mess of a page. I was using up [...]
I was spinning my wheels, not really going anywhere artistically today. Ever have those days? Well, it all changed when I started ripping things up! Many moons ago I had extra paint on my palette and brushes so I made circles on a piece of ephemera. Then it went onto the pile of [...]
Welcome to May’s Colorful Gelli Print Party! The old layers of paint on an abandoned building inspired me. I wanted to capture the build up of colors and layers. Oh, and I wanted shimmer and shine too. So out came the Catalyst blade tool (#5 size 15), Amsterdam paints and the Golden gold paint I [...]
I have been struggling with a big decision with the pro and con lists feeling equal. So, I turned to my most trusted advisers, paint and stencils to see what answers emerged. This started as a page used to clean off Sue Pelletier’s Loose Woman stencil when it was drenched in spray inks. [...]
This started as a way to loosen up and get the gremlins out of my head. It wasn’t until I was sewing on the quote that realized how true it was…I just wanted that cranky gremlin in my head to shut up. I started doing something, anything, to get that gremlin to go away. By [...]
It’s spring and this is the garden of my dreams! Playing around in my art journal had me “planting” Julie Balzer’s Corn Flowers while Sally Carly by Dina Wakely marveled a the amazing colors of Dylusions inks! Of course every good garden needs a touch of glitter… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNOjTAjN9bM Can’t see the video? See it on [...]
I always invite my muse to come into my studio so I thought it was only reasonable that I pay her a visit over spring break a few weeks back. Where does she live? In Turks and Caicos. How do I know she lives here? Because when I am there I am inspired like no [...]
