I was Gelli printing® with the Doodle it Dream Landscape stencil and had the idea to use it as a coloring page.  All those wonderful lines in black paint just screamed opportunity to play to me.  You can see how how to make a reverse print with the Gelli Plate® in a video here.

But…there was an Oops…I tried doodling in this reverse print, and well, that just wasn’t making me happy.  I drew a couple of lines but just wasn’t feeling it. I wanted paint. Luckily, I have a little paint just laying around…

But the colors I started with just looked horrible. Oops again.

This is just play.  I’m just coloring.  I did think it was horrendously ugly after the first 2 colors and that was a fantastic opportunity for me to grab some of my less used colors. Less used is a really nice way of saying they are basically neglected tubes of paint. I never would have put these colors together if I had any kind of plan.  And once again, an Oops takes me to a better place than I could have planned.

But after a few of the less favorite colors, my usual rainbow colors called to me.  Thanks Maria McGuire for designing a stencil with all these fun shapes to fill with paint.

When I was all finished, I loved how all the colors played together.  The less loved tubes of paint played really well with my favorites.  Thanks muse, for reminding me to grab some other colors too!  Maybe I will use that red more….well that just sounds crazy when I say it out loud!

What am I sharing for this week’s Let’s Play link party?  Plop, plop, but no fizz fizz, but oh what a relief play is…okay I might be a little slap happy from the play…As I was playing with a little Gelli Plate® and a stencil, I got the most wonderful thrill plopping it right on the paper. In the video you’ll see me start out with my thinking brain and then my play brain takes over once I plop it down!

Watch Using a Little Gelli Plate® and a Big Stencil on YouTube.

Now you’ve seen my play….let’s see yours!  Head down to the link party below to share what you’re creating!

The deli paper used to clean off the Vintage typewriter alphabet stencil is a bonus treat of the play…maybe this will end up in an art journal soon.

Here’s what the big piece looks all finished.  I might cut it up for a page in an art journal or anything else I use paper for but right now I am just enjoying it the way it is!

Link up etiquette  

• If you see something you like, leave a comment on their photo or blog post and show some love – let them know they inspired you! 
• Share your recent play (any form of creativity is welcome) that hasn’t been linked up to a Let’s Play before
• Add a link back to to this post so that others can find it, be sparked, and join the fun!
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