I  work all year with this still life (photo)

I got out my gelli plate this time and made several mono prints. I first cut out the shapes and made templates that way. It was quite a puzzle to get the right order of printing, with the one shape behind the other, and I made several mistakes but it sure was fun and I learned a lot. The prints may not be perfect but I like them anyway.

I cutted one gelli print, that I found rather boring, into pieces and pasted the pieces on a black background.

Nout picked his bike to use as an object to work with (photo)

My son Nout and his beloved Guus came to stay with us last weekend and having seen my prints of the still life, they both wanted to try gelli printing. Guus (left) created some marvelous prints using all kinds of colors and templates.

Nout choose to make some prints for the project so he choose a bike to picture. The following print he created by using an oil crayon drawing on the gelli plate

Getting the hang of it, he tried to ‘draw’ a bike with a thread…

… and did it come out nice!!!

And here’s the second (‘ghost’) print.

Having all the paint tubes on the table, Nout saw the hardened paint around the openings and since some of those pieces are round, he saw wheels in it… so he pulled the hardened paint from the tubes and created a 3D mini bike which he glued onto aquarel paper. Ain’t that a sweet little bike?

We all had a wonderful time and we all have new inspiraton to investigate more possibilities, take things further and create more pieces. Each time we both created some new art works I will publish it on my blog. Thanks for stopping by and if you like what we’re doing, leave us a comment. We’d like that!

The idea came when I read in a newsletter from Julie Balzer that she decided to work on one and the same object 100 times for her ‘100 Day Project’, using different materials and techniques. Both my son Nout and I thought that is a nice idea, but we decided to limit it to 50 art pieces and give ourselves time for that… until the end of the year.

*** Why so many work-outs of one object you might think… the thing is: if you choose one object, the first ways to work out the chosen object come to mind quickly: drawing, painting, collage and a few other possibilities. The trick is to see what is still possible when you have used the most obvious materials and played with the most logical techniques. What will then emerge? What strange things will happen? I am curious!***

First we had to choose what we were going to work with this year. I chose a still life (a number of objects of different color and shape, so that I could also rearrange them. I consider myself very clever *grin*)

Marit chose to work with this still life (photo)

Here are the first 5 pieces I created

Nout picked his bike to use as an object to work with (photo)

Here are his 5 pieces of art

Each time we both created five more pieces I will publish it on my blog.

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what we’re doing, leave us a comment. We’d like that!