Last week was Litha (Summer Solstice), and I was inspired to create a new mixed media collage to celebrate. I don’t generally work in shades of green and gold, so I didn’t have a stash of ready-made papers to pull from. I hauled out the Gelli plate and paints and got busy! The first image…
Creating Layered Abstract Prints Inspired by Nature
I love making abstract prints on my Gelli Plate, so I have folders full of prints that I never use. Last week, I broke out the paper stash and got busy. This was inspired by the North American Spice Bush that I found in my garden earlier this season, and the first visit by a…
Sketchbook Small Landscape Lake
This is from my sketchbook – there was a small corner of a geli print that just looked like a serene lake – I didn’t want to add too much to the composition, so I layered colored pencils over a layer of gesso after adding the original tissue collage to my sketchbook with a layer…
Garden Mother with Bees
This is when the magic got my attention! I created geli plate papers and collaged them onto a small 8×10 inch canvas – When I had the papers glued down and stepped back, I clearly saw a bumble bee (maybe because I love my bumble bees), so this painting emerged from that first collage of…
Sand & Chi 