Oops

Have you ever had a day where everything you touch turns to big doo doo?

I don’t have them often, but today is definitely one of those days.

I started out in fine fettle, with all sorts of ideas, and was happily tackling the first of them when I managed to kind of destroy my beloved new 12×14″ gel plate. I am not joking. I wailed and then cried.

I was trying out an image transfer technique with a special photo paper. I have seen several artists using this technique, and I’ve had a pack of the paper in my stash for a few months waiting for the day I’d get around to trying it out. Today was that day.

I did all the things, and I opted to use my big Gelelf plate, which I love, and the flippin photo paper and the gel plate had some sort of love reaction and bonded with each other, and when I tried to pull the photo paper off, the plate started disintegrating. Did I say that I wailed and cried?

After that every other thing went wrong, from managing to glue a bunch of collage fodder together, to unbelievably bad painting, and I have decided to call it a day and post an old piece in a frame mock-up to remind myself that I can actually draw, and do monoprinting.

All is not lost. I wrote to Gelelf to let them know what happened. Not as a complaint, because this is really on me, not them, and I just wanted to let them know that my experiment failed, and they may want to add that info to their FAQs.

I have to say they are such a great company with amazing customer service. I have said this before. They are sending me a replacement plate, which is above and beyond anything I expected and I cried again because nice things do happen, even on bad days.

Point of reference, I once contacted Gelli Arts with a small and simple query and I’m still waiting for even an auto-response.

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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