1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY!!! Have fun with your sweetie this evening out on the town!
2. Last Friday: Segway tour of Portland, thanks to Group-on!!!
Oh my gosh, SO FUN! At first you think you're going to fall over, but you don't - you just zoom! Such a fun way to get around town and see the sights, even if it's your own town.
3. Today: Monoprinting with Gelli plate! Slab on some paint, add textures or stenciling, press paper on top and voila! Add more layers - yeehaw!
I think I'll be scanning these and printing onto tissue paper to layer up some collages for artist trading cards. More fun to come!
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| Birthday girl Emily and sweetie Michael |
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| The Segway corral - giddy-up! |
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| Rob was an instant expert on his Segway! |
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| Downtown Portland, in front of the Portland Building, with Portlandia (the statue) looking over our shoulders. |
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| On the east side of the Willamette River, Portland skyline behind us. |
3. Today: Monoprinting with Gelli plate! Slab on some paint, add textures or stenciling, press paper on top and voila! Add more layers - yeehaw!
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| Quick and fun monoprinting with Gelli plates! |
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| LOTS of layers of colors, textures, and stamps! |
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| Layers of colors and stencils |
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| Don't know if you can see it in the photo, but the rust color looks like shiny copper in real life - maybe because I added GAC polymer to the paint. |
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| Even the deli papers I used to clean off the brayers and stencils turned out fun! |
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| This may have been my favorite experiment: I started to draw on the face using the other end of a paint brush, but it skipped a lot so I ended up finger painting the face. They I sprayed with water before printing. |
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| Next I printed the ghost of the image onto a paper on which I had already applied many layers of paint and texture. |
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| More experimenting with spraying water onto the plate and then printing. I like the starry sky effect! |
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| Landscapey - The "mountain" in the background was a ghost print with a lot of water spritzed on the plate, then I added more paint onto the plate and scraped with a texture tool. |
I think I'll be scanning these and printing onto tissue paper to layer up some collages for artist trading cards. More fun to come!
