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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
100 Day Project Day 78 My mixed media girl is drowning in layers today, which is lots of fun, but she’s currently in a soggy almost out of ugly stage, and every photo I try to take has weird glare, so there’s no photo update on her. I got one of my gel plates out…
100 Day Project Day 42 Some days are more productive than others, and that’s just the way the paint flows. Sorry, I’ll get my coat. Some days are more productie than others, and the productivity is so varied there’s no finished gem to decorate the blog, and that’s OK. I started out in my sketchbook,…
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