Summer of Color week 2

Yesterday I showed you how I played with the gelli plate and ended up with these prints.

And then wasn't sure what to do with them!

Do you use Pinterest?  You can find me here.  I was pinning things yesterday and wondered whether there was any point as the whole thing was supposed to be about inspiration and I have rarely used the hundreds of things I've pinned to inspire me.  However yesterday I came across a doodle/zentangle sampler that I had pinned and realised the way the page was structured would be a great way to use the gelli plate prints I'd made.

So here it is: my orange and hot pink page.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Summer of Color playtime

Week 2 on Summer of Color is Orange & Hot Pink. 

Continuing my Gelli plate theme I looked out some papers and the Orange, Terracotta and Raspberry Paint Dabbers that I have.  The Raspberry was the nearest thing I have to Hot Pink in acrylic.  I do have some Dylusions Ink in Bubblegum Pink but more of that later.  In the end I didn't use the map paper or the tree one on the end.  The three ready made pieces were from the Dina Wakely workshop I went on.

I put the Raspberry acrylic on the plate and this is what I found.  Shadows of last week's play.

Sadly the shadows didn't come out to play.

I played with the orange.

Then I messed about with using lots of different masks/stencils on the gelli plate.  Which is when you realise you really should have turned your stencil over!

And played some more.  I sprayed the Dylusions ink through the stencil.

And then got so wrapped up in playing that I forgot to take photos of the process so here are the finished pages. I also added some black and white paint.

The one on the left here is where I rolled my brayer to clean it and is possibly my favourite background!

So now I have all these backgrounds and have to decide what to do with them for Summer of Color challenge.  You'll have to come back to find out what I decide.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Summer of Color week 1

Summer of Color is a 6 week challenge blog where each week there is a different colour choice to use in whatever way we choose.  This week's colour is Citron & Turquoise.

I thought that I might use different techniques each week with my Gelli plate using the colour proscribed for that week.  Firstly I watched this video.

I cut out some paper circles and put them on the gelli plate.  I applied some turquoise and some yellow paint.  Of course it all went very green!  I removed the circles

and they looked like this.

You are supposed to wait for the paint to dry between each layer and although I did use the heat gun a bit, it all took a long time.  I did watch Trooping of the Colour in between!

I added with acrylic paint

and added circles and lines.

I put the clear packing tape across the gelli plate and smoothed it down.  Then pulled it off.  I stuck 2 pieces to tin foil, one piece to a piece of atlas paper and on the other I tried some Perfect Pearls.  I looked in my journal for somewhere to put them and found this page that I had done with Pan Pastel and hadn't liked very much.

I wasn't overly impressed with the result when I'd stuck the tape on the page.

However all was not lost as in searching through the journal I found this page

which is much more citron and turquoise.

I added the circles that I'd used as masks on the gelli plate and added a complementary colour and some words from a Dylusions stamp.

Looking forward to finding out what week 2's colour is and hoping for a more interesting time with the Gelli plate.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice