Tell me a story and a fun afternoon.

Hello

Today I am showing my last piece for AJJ 'Tell me a story'  where the lovely    Erika from BioArtGal  chose the fun theme for this month. I can't believe January is over so soon, that seemed to fly by. Thanks Erika I really enjoyed your theme.
I drew around a bird die-cut (by Sheena Douglass) and used water colours and pencils. The rest is a couple of stamps and Washi tapes.

 

And now...drum roll please..... this afternoon I got the small Gelliplate out and had a lovely time playing with it and made 3 useable pages that I was quite pleased with. I even found that roller (which had been in plain sight all the time) although if you look closely at the photo you'll see its not a proper roller, but one of those things you use for taking off fluff from your clothes.... when brand new they start off sticky but that's goes eventually.

So thank you for all the encouragement and advice you left on my previous post - that really helped. 

 

On this occasion I didn't get out too many stencils or mark making bits and I also limited my colours.
I stuck the gelliplate on a clear acrylic block and used it like a stamp on my pages.

 

 

I can't wait to have another play and be more adventurous.

I also want to get some of the mini 'Gel press petites'.

I can now see this being very addictive and fun :)

 

Thank you for your comments

and stopping by.

Gill x

The Colours of Autumn

Isn't it frustrating when all you want to do is make art or do something crafty but other things get in the way and stop you...

so a big phew! for at last I have had time to create something....  linking today to Art Journal Journey where the theme for this month is 'Inspired by Autumn colours'.



A digital piece .......

Blended together photo of trees, some photos of a Gelli print* and scrap paper which had paint on

from brayer but looked interesting to use.

Added digital elements and papers I had already made a couple of years ago.

(The Dragonfly has a cinnamon stick for its body and think the leaves are Bay leaves) 

(* my first attempt at gelli plate printing was bit of a disaster,
next time I hope to do better and not be so nervous of ruining plate and brayer)

Close up of words

The fun thing with digital art is you can have the original

and just keep altering it and getting more from it.

So I altered the first piece to make it a bit more grungy

and I used the Gelli print on top layer and duplicated

it a couple of times and also altered the blend mode on one of the papers

 which also made it slightly darker too..

Thanks so much for stopping by

Gill x