After picking up some Golden Open Acrylic Paints yesterday while I was out shopping yesterday, I couldn’t wait to try them out. Ordinary acrylic paint dries fairly quickly, but open acrylics are slow drying which means that you can take your time mixing and blending them. When using them with a gel plate, this is […]
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Ever since I read Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way many years ago, I’ve always been a big fan of the Artist Date. This is a date that you make with yourself to do something fun and interesting, not necessarily creative, but it usually ends up being that way. One of my favorite Artist Dates
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It’s been another busy day with work but I made time to print a few more gel plate prints on fabric in greens and browns. These colors coordinate nicely with the other fabrics I gathered yesterday. I even managed to find a few skeins of thread that will work perfectly. I’m just about ready to
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After making some gel plate prints on fabric yesterday, today I printed a few more fabric strips in contrasting colors. After I had made the prints, I realized that the colors reminded me of a photo I took last weekend, so I printed the photo onto fabric. It looks perfectly at home with the all
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Today I decided to attack this pile of fabric which I intend to transform over time into gel plate prints. You can see how all this started here. I grabbed several pieces of fabric that were completely uninspiring in color … … and made a print using one of the lilac fat quarters. I liked
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Continuing on from yesterday I finished making my gel plate prints on cardstock. Now that they are all done, I’m going to use them to make a small journal. I also managed to get some great prints on fabric. I’m going to use this for the cover of my journal. Check back tomorrow to see
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