Marit's Paper World (blog)

woyww #755

Marit — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:24:18 +0000

Goodmorning Julia, goodmorning all deskers! Wednesday morning and no, I am not at work. I took this week off and am enjoying some me-time in my little atelier! After a busy October -month I now have time to relax and do all sorts of things that makes me happy, like picking up my mum on monday to go on our annual ‘Christmas trip’ to a local garden centre. My mum cannot walk for a long period but there are wheelchairs there, so she installed herself and I pushed her – and we sauntered through that store like two giggling teenagers… laughing at the singing deers and Santa Clauses shouting ‘hohoho’, being amazed by the many ‘ornaments’ of which we sometimes didn’t know what it was supposed to represent (‘weard, fluffy thingies’ that, after turning it over and over and looking at it from all angles, we came to the conclusion that it must represent an owl.) We had a great time, had coffee with cake half the way, and once we reached the finish (the cash registers) we both had only a few small things to pay for… (I bought two bags of tea lights on sale and a thin silver wire with very small LED lights.)

Having free time, I finally tried a gelli-plate technique I saw on you tube a few weeks ago: using oil pastels as a resistent. My desk shows the fun I had…

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… and the floor got covered with gelli prints, laying there to dry.

Next is an art journal spread I created a while ago in my Chronicles journal

Chronicles: Week 43

Chronicles: Week 44

On the next spread I used one of those “oil pastel resist gelli prints” with a drawing that I created to picture the huge storm Ciarán. That windmill and waves may have you puzzling, but the image is inspired by a real live scene…

… here’s the photo – made by Marcel Witte – that I found on the internet. The mill stands in Vlissingen, a nearby town, and I used this photo as a reference for the drawing.

No storm today though, it’s a quiet morning and I may even see some sunshine this afternoon, but tonight I presume heavy winds will blow through our country ’cause it’s election day… big changes may come our way, we’ll see…

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day.

big, bigger, BIGGEST (woyww #680)

Marit — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:00:09 +0000

Hi there, goodmorning! This blogpost is scheduled – I type this on Sunday – ’cause after a long day of work I don’t feel like crawling behind the computer in the evening, and on Wednesday morning I have to start early again. My job is three days a week and Wednesday is a working day for me, but when I come home later today, the working week will be over and my ‘weekend’ will start.

So, on to the stuff that was on my desk last weekend. It had been ages, but I played with my gelli plates! Yes, plural, because besides my old plate I bought another one. A big gelli plate (12″x 14″ – 30,48 x 35,56 cm) with which I played on Sunday. I only thought of taking a picture of my desk AFTER I cleaned my desk though… you always say you are jealous off my neat desk but being neat is also a handicap sometimes. I’d have loved to show you the mess I am capable of making! The only thing that’s left of my ‘gelliplate-session’ are the prints that lay on the floor to dry. Well, that’s my ‘desk’ to show for today then…

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I hope to use these prints in my Chronicles art journal because that’s why I bought this big gelli plate in the first place. At the beginning of this year I bound me another Chronicles journal and I decided to go for a big size. My 2022 journal is 7.87″ x 12.8″ (20 x 32,5 cm) and my old gelli plate is a lot smaller, which means I couldn’t use my prints as a background. I still need two prints now to fill a spread, but that’s always better than four! I think I’ll pick the one second from left on the top with the one beneath that (the ‘yellowish/brownish) to make my next spread – that combination might work don’t you think? That’ll be a spread highlighting week 22 then, which means I have some spreads from the weeks before that to show.

Chronicles 2022 – Week 18

Chronicles 2022 – Week 19

Chronicles 2022 – Week 20

Chronicles 2022 – Week 21

I’ll be working on that new spread for week 22 later. I hope YOU have time to plan some creative time too this week. I’ll be around to see what you are up to, so if you leave me a comment I’ll visit you back. See you!

Messy, miscellaneous woyww blogpost

Marit — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 08:56:14 +0000

Good morning sweeties, glad to see you again. It’s been two weeks… yes, I skipped last week’s Wednesday blogpost because I got all occupied with my art. I went into some sort of creative flow and didn’t want to disturb that, so I kept on going. As a result, I have a lot to show you. I won’t publish it all at once though but still, it’s a lot so I won’t talk much today – instead, there’s some extra photos. Enjoy!

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This was on my working table Tuesday afternoon. (Who said I couldn’t make a mess… 😉 )

Gelli-printing on my ‘big desk’…

… and the smaller surface to the left, used to lay the paper to dry (on top of my stencil-folder) and there’s my mobile phone underneath of it all (the ‘green thingie’ peeping out)

DUTCH DARES

A new dare at the scrapbooking challenge group where I am a (guest) designer. The challenge is to use this sketch:

The layout I created with this sketch
(the French sentence is from a Jacques Brel song: Ay Marieke, Marieke, Il y a longtemps. Entre les tours De Bruges et Gand.)

Notes from the land of the screaming seagulls

A few years ago (September 2017) I started working on a new series of ‘small collage-mixed-media’ pieces. It was a sequel to my earlier series Letters from the Wasteland. I created two pieces back then, but the project got ‘lost and forgotten’ at the bottom of a drawer after that… until I found it last week and picked it up again.

Notes from the land of the screaming seagulls III

Notes from the land of the screaming seagulls IV

The Chronicles of Marit 2020 – Week 22

Week 22 was a week the world will remember…

Thanks for staying with me ’till the end of this blogpost! Have a great week y’all – go do something fun: make a (creative) mess!