Thrummie Bizzum

Tag: gel print

  • Dangerous Foliage

    Dangerous Foliage

    I have moved onto a wood panel (12″x12″) trying out the various methods of printing these leaves, and I am enjoying the results. I wasn’t being precious about the collage, so there is some creasing, but this isn’t about perfection, it’s about exploring. The garlic mustard plant is quite fascinating, and it is a great…

  • Act on Ideas

    Act on Ideas

    One thing leads to another, as always, and yesterdays foraging in the jungle of my garden, which led to some gel prints recording my favourite leaves, led to more foraging and more gel printing, which led to this idea that I’m experimenting with in my sketchbook. It’s rough, and needs tweaking, refining, and a change…

  • Gardening, kind of.

    Gardening, kind of.

    I’m loving what I achieved in my studio yesterday. I walked into the room this morning and was immediately inspired by the sense of having more space. I went out in the garden today and selected some leaves from what some people might consider weeds, but I consider garden friends, and used them to make…

  • Gel Print Texture

    Gel Print Texture

    A parade of gel prints today, all of which are making me happy. I have been very good today and actually used some of my handmade collage fodder for a textured background. I have been making a lot of collage fodder, then just admiring it but not using it, so it felt good to stick…

  • Not My Mess

    Not My Mess

    If you’ve been following along you will know that there is no greater expert at interfering with my daily art practice than yours truly. Even if I always manage to somehow maintain my daily art practice, there are days when procrastination gets right in the way of it all, and that’s on me. It’s frustrating,…

  • Friday Four

    Friday Four

    The figure painting top left is on an 8×8″ canvas, and is a work-in-progress. The other three images are 12×14″ gel prints. I am still being scraped on here, so I am changing the way I share images just now. I don’t think I should have to, but sharing freely on here shouldn’t mean my…

  • Scrape Away

    Scrape Away

    Some of my favourite gel prints from recent sessions using my gel plates to make collage fodder. Yes, they’re unceremoniously watermarked. I’m trying to find a way to make peace with the mass scraping and downloading of my art going on, but it just feels really fucking shitty. Painting was done today, for the streak…

  • Gel Plate Joy

    Gel Plate Joy

    I added another canvas to my pile today, and I put in an order for another thirty little canvases, so the 100 Day Project continues. I wanted to share this magical pull from my Gelelf gel plate, tho, because I’m completely obsessed with it. This is just a corner of the print, which is much…

  • Big Gel Joy

    Big Gel Joy

    It’s Day 27 of the 100 Day Project, and I have 29 mini canvases with paint on. Today I pulled this one from the pile to bring it on a bit from the very scratchy sketch that was there. I started building the values and it’s looking a lot better than it was. I’ve also…

  • Tiny Landscapes

    Tiny Landscapes

    Yesterday a 2″ circle punch arrived. I was totally confused. Apparently I ordered it in January, and I had completely forgotten about it. It’s now back in stock, apparently. I had been using one of my gel plates as a palette, so I pulled what was on there, and it wasn’t exactly inspiring. The surprise…

  • Painting Elphin

    Painting Elphin

    Sketchbook painting using one of my photos of Elphin the taxidermy badger that I took at the wee sketching group event a few weeks ago. I’m playing with colour, and using turquoise as the almost mother colour because, like the badger, I am a creature of habit. I was using one of my gel plates…

  • Gel Printing on Fabric Tips

    Gel Printing on Fabric Tips

    Sheelagh asked in the comments about gel printing on fabric, and there are various ways to do it, there are probably more ways to do it than I have listed here, such is the versatility and beauty of gel printing. First, it depends on what you want to do with the fabric you are printing…