https://youtu.be/CR6VY_M4wjg One stencil can give you multiple looks- stencils have all sorts of tricks up their sleeves…well…that is if stencils wore shirts…An alphabet stencil can make great bold letters AND it can also make subtle patterns! I’m sharing how to do these step by step in the video above. I’m always one for more color, [...]

Call it freedom, call it being in the moment, call it letting go. Those are all ways to say the same thing but how do you do it when your mojo’s gone? When perfectionism makes creating so hard? When all you hear in your head is that it won’t be good enough? No matter what’s [...]

It was horrible! All I wanted to do was read an article online and there were so many ads loading slowly and impossible to close pop up videos that I couldn’t actually get the information I needed without raising my blood pressure. This is why I have never put ads on my website and use [...]

It almost sounds too good to be true, but The Art Bundle for Good really is $5400 worth of art classes for $99. That’s more than 90% off! Actually closer to 98% off. But I’m getting ahead of myself because you might be wondering what is the Art Bundle for Good? It’s over 100 art [...]

https://youtu.be/S3yq5k0dEtQ What’s the secret to getting gel prints full of pattern with colors that pop? Magic? Random Luck? Nope, but it can feel like that when you don’t know the process. Anyone, including you, can make prints like these when you understand how stencils interact with paint and color on a gel plate. After all, [...]

https://youtu.be/XizOldMbJ1Y Can you use PanPastel on a gel plate? Absolutely! There are things that PanPastel can only do when using it on a gel plate that it could never ever do with paper alone. Understanding how these two supplies interact opens up a whole world of printing possibilities all while sealing in the PanPastels! The [...]

https://youtu.be/OQuPhq-XhDE What happens when I see incredible wrought iron while in Savannah, Georgia? I get the urge to grab a gel plate and make prints right there! The curves in the ironwork, the details mounted on those windows, it all just screamed gel print with me! But there are some impracticalities with this. First, I [...]

They came with curiosity, questions, and ready to embrace the idea of What If! These women played hard all weekend, exploring techniques, but most of all building their understanding of why and how a gel plate plays with paints, stencils, and PanPastels. This event has been postponed twice, courtesy of covid, so we were all [...]

https://youtu.be/Tbp939xeIt0 If it’s got a pattern on it, it just might make a great gel printing tool! Oreos have plenty of pattern on them so I had to give it a try! Fair warning, cookies were harmed in the making of these prints, after all, once they get paint on them they aren’t safe to [...]