Original art, tutorials, and more. One, former number cruncher's journey to find her own unique artistic style. I'm going to try it all and see what sticks!
Today, I pulled out a bunch of Gel Press prints, made copies, and went to work....ripping and gluing. I was, actually, having a block and just couldn't think of anything to do. Whenever this happens, I grab my prints.
Here we go.........
Supplies
Gel Press prints
Golden Glossy Gel Medium
Faber-Castell Black Pen
Black Charcoal Pencil
Today, I'm working on a couple small pieces that I'm making for a little (very little) arts market thing that I'm doing next Saturday. In an effort to build some inventory, I'm doing two pieces at the same time in this video.
Here we go...........
List of Supplies
2 - 4" X 6" canvases
Scrapbook paper
Gel Press prints
Decou-Page
American Paint - Bahama Blue, Chiffon Blue, Titanium White, Mustard Seed
DecoMedia Paint - Raw Umber
Alphabet stamps
Black Charcoal Pencil
Face Rubber Stamp - Hampton Art #DF2282 "Square Face Frame"
Black Ranger Archival Inkpad
Wish me luck at the Gainesville Arts Market next weekend!!
Yep.....I'm starting with my Gel Press™ print scraps again! Today it's a vase of flowers. There are lots of flowers blooming in my yard and I love it. My vegetables....eh....not so great. We had a lot of rain and they hated it. As my, late, father-in-law would say...."whatta ya gonna do". So.....
here we go...........
List of Supplies
11" X 13" Canvas
Gel Press™ print scraps
Donna Downey Anemone Stencils
Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paint - Black
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics - Titan Buff
Oil Pastels - Pink, Purple, White
Black Charcoal Pencil
Pigma Micron Black Pen
Have a great Monday and a wonderful week.
PEACE!!
Cyndi
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Today, we are making a cityscape with prints made on my Gel Press plate.
List of Supplies
Strathmore Bristol paper 11" x 14"
Liquitex White Gesso
Masters Touch Acrylic Paint - Light Purple
Decou-Page by DecoArt
Golden Fluid Acrylic - Carbon Black
Black Charcoal Pencil
Gel Press Prints
Handmade Templates
How to Make the Bridge Template
On cardstock, draw a straight line, the length of the bridge.
Decide how wide you would like for the widest part of the bridge to be, divide in half, then use the "half" measurement to make marks above and below the straight line.
Draw lines from the marks, just made, to the end of the line. You will be making a long triangle.
Fold triangle in half.
Decide how far you would like the "arches" from the top of the bridge (I used 1/4 inch). Make a mark at the widest end of the triangle, and draw a line from this mark to the point.
Now, using something round, place it halfway over the triangle at the widest end and keep it below the line that you made in the, above, step, and draw the half circle. Then keep making half circles along the triangle, make each one, slightly, smaller. I just sort of "eyeballed" this part, but if you are a perfectionist......measure.
Cut out the half circles, open template, and you have it!!
If these directions are too confusing and you would like to have a pdf of the template, send me a comment or email.
How to Make the Buildings
I cut rectangles for the different height buildings out of cardstock. Then I cut, identical rectangles for the bottom "underwater" buildings. I cut the underwater reflection buildings about 1/5 shorter than the, above water, buildings. Then I shaded the right side of each building rectangle at different widths, using carbon black paint and a sponge. After shading them, I cut tiny portions off of the tops on each side to make them look like they were dimensional.
I love New York City. No...this doesn't look like the NYC skyline....but, it is a cityscape! I can't wait until December when my sister and I will be taking another New York City vacation. Here we are in New York, three months ago. That's my sis with Robin Roberts and that's me in the black hat, trying to hide behind the Christmas tree.
I did a collage landscape. Last night I heard Sting's Fields of Gold and, immediately thought....get out the Gel Press plate and make some gold-ish gel prints. I used some metallic paint, along with my regular acrylic paints.
List of Supplies
6" round Gel Press Printing Plate
11" X 14" Strathmore Bristol paper
Golden Fluid Acrylics - Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold, Burnt Sienna, Nickel Azo Yellow, Quinacridone Magenta
Liquitex Basics - Gold
American Paint - Warm White, Bleached Sand, Raw Umber
FolkArt Metallic - Antique Copper
Bella Glitter Paint - Gold Rush
Liquitex Matte Medium
Brayer
Various handmade and purchased stencils, as well as, markmaking combs
Printing can be so addictive and it's very easy to end up with lots and lots of prints. They can be used in so many different ways. Check out Gel Press Junkies for some ideas.
This is my first "Just Gellin" post. Since, I am on the Gel Press Creative Team, I will be, periodically, posting videos and tutorials using prints, created on my Gel Press Printing Plate. I like to name everything, so these will be called "Just Gellin'".
Here's a quickie that I did today. I used prints that I, previously, made on a Gel Press How-To Video. Please check out the Gel Press Blog to see Lea Cioci's (a fellow designer) piece "Spread Your Wings and Fly". The Gel Press blog is new....subscribe to it....to see lot's of great art by some super talanted people!!!!!
List of Supplies:
Strathmore Bristol paper
Gel Prints
Decou-Page by DecoArt
Liquitex White Gesso
Liquitex Basics Light Blue Permanent
Golden Fluid Acrylics - Green Gold
Black Charcoal Pencil
This week I started out by using all of the gel print scraps. I use my gel prints for lots and lots of stuff, and I just can't throw away, even the tiniest scrap. Does that make me a "gel print hoarder"? Perhaps. I made these prints on my Gel Press Mono-Printing Plate. As I've mentioned before, I usually make copies of the prints that I love, and use the copies in my collage.
As I mentioned at the beginning of the video......I had some issues. I don't know why, but my products just didn't want to work with me on this project. On many other faces, I start out with a basecoat of Ceramcoat Paint. It's sort of like craft paint....tiny bottle,....inexpensive. It, usually provides a really nice base for the Prismacolor pencils. On this one, it just gave me a hard time. The paint was too shiny/slick....the pencils just wouldn't work. The only thing that I can think of is that I did not gesso the paper first. However, I don't know why that would matter because I still would have been using the pencils over the paint. Maybe my paint is getting to old. I will get to the bottom of this and let you know.
Have a wonderful Monday and an, even, greater week!!
