Sketch Gel Plate Transfer

Today was a play day which involved lots of little creative bits and pieces getting done in five different sketchbooks and journals. I had a lot of fun chilling and pulling out random materials with no focus on a finished Thing, just play.

I have this old, old A4 spiral sketchbook that I really want to get finished, so I played in a few pages with paint and modelling paste, and then did some more of the same in my new A5 journal project. I also did bits and pieces in my junk journal, altered book, and the sketchbook that’s supposed to be my new working sketchbook.

I’m just not excited by that one, and I’m not sure if it’s the paper, or that fact it isn’t as think as my previous two, and I think I might want to stick with what I like.

I have two new Things to talk about. The first is kind of boring, but I replaced the bulb in my Room (it’s not quite glamourous enough to be called a studio) and put in a stonking big daylight bulb. It’s incredibly bright, and I am sensitive, so I am training myself not to look at it 😀 but the difference it makes is huge., especially today when the weather has been dark with thunderstorms.

My other new Thing is a present to myself for completing the 100 Day Project. It’s a funky Portable Palette Box that I just fell for as a soon as I saw it.

The first photo is what it looks like collapsed and in your pocket, and the second photo shows the water cup expanded, and the palette open. The palette has a silicone inner lid to stop paint escaping from each well, which should mean it could be used for acrylics as well as watercolours or gouache.

I haven’t decided what I am going to put in it, but it’s perfect for taking out with a wee sketchbook for doing quick studies, which is something I want to do – weather permitting.

My favourite page from today’s play is this one:

The paint blobs were already there from a previous session, but I added the figure today. I used a sketch from the sketchbook I finished in March, and popped a gel plate over it, and painted it onto the gel plate, then transferred that into my new book. I love using my gel plates to make prints of my drawings.

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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