Mixed Media Mayhem - Fish Out of Water
What's more fun than random Gelli printing? Using a range of blues and violets, old wall paper scraps for stamps, and circle stencils and sequin waste, I made a a two page spread that, while stimulating the tactile sense (doesn't that Gelli plate feel great when you use your hands as a barren?), left me uninspired. But this is an art journal. It doesn't matter. It's just for fun. Maybe I see bubbles, maybe a reef, so I drew a fish on it. To give the fish presence, I colored him in with gesso and gave him stripes with yellow gelatos. Since my drawing skills are minimal, the fish was ill proportioned. To cover his distortion, I cut shapes from my scrap deli paper where I had cleaned off the Gelli plate to make some kind of reefy things. I was really proud when my grandson, Brody, popped over my shoulder and recognized it saying, "Oh you drew a clown fish." See...fourth graders and I have an understanding.
What's more fun than random Gelli printing? Using a range of blues and violets, old wall paper scraps for stamps, and circle stencils and sequin waste, I made a a two page spread that, while stimulating the tactile sense (doesn't that Gelli plate feel great when you use your hands as a barren?), left me uninspired. But this is an art journal. It doesn't matter. It's just for fun. Maybe I see bubbles, maybe a reef, so I drew a fish on it. To give the fish presence, I colored him in with gesso and gave him stripes with yellow gelatos. Since my drawing skills are minimal, the fish was ill proportioned. To cover his distortion, I cut shapes from my scrap deli paper where I had cleaned off the Gelli plate to make some kind of reefy things. I was really proud when my grandson, Brody, popped over my shoulder and recognized it saying, "Oh you drew a clown fish." See...fourth graders and I have an understanding.
