I am never short of ideas, and that’s what’s so funny/frustrating about a lot of days when I go to the studio, and then stand there wondering “what am I going to paint???”
Today I didn’t have that feeling, although I did a whole bunch of procrastinating before I went to the studio, so it wasn’t some plain sailing, airy fairy, perfect day. I still had to get out of my own way, even though I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
Eventually I knuckled down, and got stuck in with my first experiment of an idea I have been ruminating and procrastinating about for months. Naturally, having just bought two smaller gel plates for specific project ideas, today I pulled out the 10×8″ gel plate to work with. This is classic me.
So, this is my first experiment, and it’s nowhere near to finished, because there are several layers I still want to do. I may not even finish this one because it’s kind of the prototype to test sizing, colours, and the paper I have chosen. All papers are not made equal in terms of pulling prints.
The basic idea is on the page, tho, and I’m all fired up for tomorrow, and working all the details out. Which means there’s an 80% risk I’ll end up starting an oil painting of a shoe.
My favourite thing about this is I did the classic gel plate error of setting up the basic elements facing the wrong way. It doesn’t really matter, since this is just working things out.
Yay.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
227/300
Thrummie Bizzum 
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