Hi, friends! This is my latest creation – a mixed media piece with a blue whale as the star of the scene. The background is created with layers of geli print papers and other decorative papers. The whale and sun are layers of watercolor, acrylic paint, and oil pastels. Here are a few shots of…
The Alchemy of Solstice
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…
