Is it reasonable for one person to have soooo much fun? I am finding gel printing and collage, and freeing up my style, the most creative stuff I have ever done, and it's so liberating. I can't get enough of it! Pierced paper I began today's session in the studio by following an…
This is what I have done with the final page where the paint through the pierced ovals bled through. Here is the page in its original state. I really didn't want another page with ovals as the main theme, so I decided to do another intuitive collage, using the ovals as the background.…
Venetian plaster/Fortuny-like backgrounds This is an attempt to follow what Robyn McClendon has been doing as a development of her passion for old walls. You can see the video here. I absolutely fell in love with this technique and the beautiful result and knew I just had to do it. The problem is,…
Before beginning this page, I completed the preparation of the rest of the pages in the book. I watched one of Robyn McClendon's videos, the start of her series on an altered book, and I wished I'd seen this before I started with this journal! She gave some excellent instructions about how to…
Emulsion Watching Robyn McClendon the other day, she produced some absolutely scrumptious "old wall" prints on her gel press, using matte acrylic or chalk paints. She brayered this paint onto the plate and then spritzed it with dye ink which immediately reacted and started beading up and pulling away from the paint. She…
