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Video Tutorial – How to make grunge monoprints using a gelatin plate

Love making painted grunge designs? Here’s a quick video showing you how I made the grunge type backgrounds for my art journal, by making monoprints using a gelatin plate. You can read more about it here. PS – I’ve sped up the video otherwise it’s like watching grass grow. PPS – Works on fabric too! […]

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Art journaling for the time challenged

For the last several years I’ve attempted to keep an art journal without too much success. However this year I decided to try again after discovering The Documented Life Project which is a free online project complete with support group and weekly challenges. I like the idea of a keeping a daily journal as a

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Playing with Inktense Blocks

As I mentioned the other day I’m starting this creative year off playing with Inktense Blocks. I had a bit of a play the other day and painted a small piece of fabric paper using the blocks. I added the color by rubbing the side of the inktense block over the surface of the fabric

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Monoprinting using a gelatine plate and other disasters

I gave my new gelatine plate a try out the other day and made several prints to use as textured backgrounds for some upcoming projects. I used ordinary acrylic paint and discovered that it takes a little practice to water it down to get the correct fluidity. If you paint it on too thick, it

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Monoprinting and digital eco-dyeing

Some weeks I get to play a lot, some weeks not so much. This week I’m somewhere in the middle and have several projects in progress – one I’m just beginning and one almost completed. Monoprinting Monoprinting seems to be everywhere at the moment, probably due to the new “Gelli” plates that are now available.

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More mixed media and photoshop

This is another of the mixed media pieces that I’ve been working with this week. This one has a different texture to the previous mixed media piece I showed you which you can see here, and I used only one color to paint it. Again I’ve highlighted the texture so that it really stands out.

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