Alcohol ink on the gelli plate

Spent all day yesterday working on this glue stencil for printing. I love how these look but just getting started!

All together

After my last all day session of gelli printing I had the great idea of using all my gelli's at once.  My wrist hurt so I pulled out the sliding tray on the tanker desk and all my gelli's fit.  It is a better level for brayer use and it really takes mono printing to another level!

All day gelli printing

 I printed on my gelli plate all day long.  Pure bliss.  I'm never done though.  I get exhausted before I have my prints exactly the way they should be.  My favorite print here 

was a piece of memo paper I used as a mask.  I find mono printing very elusive and if I'm not careful I go to far.  Actually that is my biggest challenge, quitting before you wreck the whole print.

gelli print collage

I am lost.  I have no projects planned.  I haven't done hardly any art for days and I feel so uncomfortable.  

I'm in Diane Salter's art junkie group on facebook so decided to work with all those gelli prints and try to make a collage.  Her collages are so wonderful that you can't even tell how the world she did it until reading her tutorials.   I'm still not sure this will work with my initials but I'm going to try.   

http://dianesalter.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html  Go check her blog out.  She is an amazing artist.

Gelli printing

Used neon folk art craft paint with scratch foam and stencils for prints pulled off the wonderful gelli plate.  My first time printing with the new setup and it was really easy to find everything to make the different textures.  I rolled the purple over one print and loved it so much I rolled it over every print from last night too!  

Ganesha stamp collage

My Fude Ball pens arrived today, just in time I think.  The farther I get on my collage the more I think I'm going have to outline it.  We shall see.

Now my dilemma, I also received my Raskog cart from Amazon!  Not IKEA, a normal person would probably just go to IKEA and buy the cart but NO I ordered it and waited a solid week and opened the BOX and OH NO they sent the wrong color.  They sent the turquoise.  I know, how could that be the wrong color?  That is my dilemma.  I love it but I ordered the grey because it matches my current desk.   But, just as I'm writing this I'm deciding to keep the turquoise because it is the perfect shade of turquoise and I love it! Off to organize my new paint cart.

magnolia journal page with gelli prints

Using a few of my latest gelli prints and matt medium I made a background in my Dylusion journal.  Doodled with gel pen and added the lyrics to my favorite song of the week, Magnolia by J J Cale.  Added some New Orleans elements with stencils and small gelli plate.  It works so well as a stamp or a stamp pad, love it!  I dabbed gesso through the Fleur de lis then added color, wiped it back then added dimension by stamping through a tiny stencil with the small gelli.  So FUN!

Gelli central

 With my hamper I'm able to keep all my gelli supplies close by when printing.  My husband named this gelli central last night!

masks for gelli plate

Using my heat tool I've been cutting some masks and stencils for my gelli plates.  Notice the art I printed in back.  I'm going to try to cut those too.