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Tag: gel plate

  • Word of the Year

    Word of the Year

    I can’t remember if I wrote about it here, or not, but I had been pondering my 2025 Word of the Year, and I came up with the phrase Take Up Space. I let that compost for a while to see if something else came up, or a different way of framing it arrived, but…

  • Daisy Pulls

    Daisy Pulls

    It is a windy day today, and after walking a few miles in the wind, I was not enthralled with being in my studio room listening to the wind, which seems to be very loud in that room, and painting. I did spend some time in there, tho, doing a quick gel printing session. I…

  • Playing in my new space

    Playing in my new space

    I spent today playing with different things, just seeing how my revamped space works for me. It will take me a minty to get used to things, but so far it’s a lot more fun to play in, and a lot more flexibility in what I can get up to. Having my old tall table…

  • Mini Monoprints

    Mini Monoprints

    I’m using a little 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbook with my 2×3″ gel plate. (yes, I’m bilingual as far as measurements go, never going to change). It started out as a project in the Things To Do When Creativity Seems Blocked – one of several tricks that I try to remember as good ways to get…

  • Text

    Text

    Today I watched a video showing the exploded remains of a journalist gathered into a shoebox, topped off with a piece of his scalp, and placed in a carrier bag. None of the people who could stop this want to stop it. 232/300

  • New Sketchbook Project

    New Sketchbook Project

    I didn’t have much time today as we went for a seven mile walk, which was beautiful and autumnal. I got another of the wee 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbooks specifically to use with my 3×5″ gel plate. Yes, one of those measurements is imperial and one is decimal and that’s how I roll. I used…

  • Pulling

    Pulling

    Today I got a wee parcel with two gel plates from a brand I haven’t tried before, so that was a nice way to get back into the studio and mess about with paints. I’ll have to give them a few sessions before I can decide whether they are like for like, or an improvement,…

  • Six In One

    Six In One

    Yesterday I used a background that had been done quite a while back as the substrate from my painting. Late in the evening I pulled a few more bits and pieces from my rack of part-done work to see if anything else called to me to be finished. One of things I pulled out was…

  • I’ve Pulled

    I’ve Pulled

    The satisfaction to be had slowly pulling a gel print that has been left overnight is so good. This was all pulled as one, so lots of waiting for layers to dry in between. It just needs a little tweak on one eye, and it’s good to go. Til the morn, Suzanne 183/200

  • On The Gel Plate

    On The Gel Plate

    Playing with charcoal transfers of the weird face I made the other day. This one is still on the gel plate with the layer drying before I try pulling it. Til the morn, Suzanne 182/200

  • Gel Plate Painting

    Gel Plate Painting

    I don’t really have much to say today, other than someone has treated me very poorly, and I am quite upset about it. I had absolutely zero appetite for painting, but I managed to do a gel plate pull into my sketchbook. It’s a technique I have tried before, and it really needs a longer…

  • Sketch Gel Plate Transfer

    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…