There is way too much shoulding happening in our days. Should I get the car an oil change. Should I finish the paperwork that is due soon. Should I make an appointment to get my gray hairs colored. I should this. I should that. Perhaps you’ve got that long overwhelming list of things you should be [...]
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There are a 1,ooo ways to use a gel plate and what do I do? One of the simplest, most basic techniques. Why would that be a good thing? Because it kept me from falling into the trap of overthinking. Over thinking takes all the fun out of the play and I could feel my mind heading towards being stuck in the [...]
Is it good or bad to be impatient? Back before I had gray hair, I used to think it was a bad thing to be impatient. But my impatience about waiting for a background to dry led to an even better than what I had planned. In this video, I’m also sharing what I’m doing now [...]
Can you use tissue paper to make gel prints? Absolutely! It’s paper and paper works on a gel plate! There is one important thing that if you know it, even when you have a juicy wet gel plate it is easy to print away on tissue. In the video, you’ll see when it ripped for me, [...]
Let’s chase away the blank page and say goodbye to all the pressure that can accompany that blankness, by gel printing directly in the journal. Why do I love to start an art journal page this way? Is it because every drop of paint is used? Is it because there is zero pressure? Is it because [...]
New stencils at StencilGirl! I say stencils because this is one stencil that includes 9 ATC sized stencils plus 2 masks are included. It’s my ATC mixup stencil that I created in the format inspired by Mary Beth Shaw. She created the first ATC stencils and what a great idea she had! How can you use this stencil? Check out [...]
What’s the play for today? It’s all about wanting and waiting for that perfect idea. Perhaps you’ve been wishing waiting for that too. I was treasuring an art journal page and waiting for that “perfect” idea to appear out of thin air. After waiting quite a while, I realized play was the perfect idea! So I grabbed what was nearby [...]
What’s the play for today? It’s all about being stuck and what to do about it. I was in my head. One minute I loved a certain part of it, then the next, I didn’t like that same part. Overthinking big time. I was never going to get anywhere as long as I was thinking this [...]
Honored to be sharing the play with you this month as the artist for August’s StencilClub at StencilGirl Products! The designs were inspired by games of old, like jacks. I do feel rather vintage admitting that jacks were one of my favorite games as kid. How can you use these to play and explore things like [...]
Ever have trouble covering up a background? That didn’t happen here. Starting with an ugly background makes it easy to cover up. What did I use to cover it up? Stencil masks. They transformed the background that was yuck into colorful creatures. Feel free to chuckle about what my daughter pointed out to me in [...]
