{"id":18026,"date":"2015-05-01T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T08:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T08:45:20","slug":"documented-life-project-acrylics-gelli-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/documented-life-project-acrylics-gelli-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Documented Life Project – Acrylics & gelli print"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my ‘watercolor experience’ (see this post<\/a>) I was glad the next prompts at “The Documented Life Projects” handled working with acrylics and using a gelli-plate. I am familiar with these materials\/techniques, I like working with acrylic paint and am a huge fan of mono printing. So last week, on a sunny but cold day, I went into my atelier and created up a storm… I made 2 (two!) art journal pages on one day!<\/p>\n

The challenge I started with was this:<\/p>\n

April 11<\/a>
\nApril Theme:<\/strong> Color Safari (Exploring Inks and Paints)<\/em>
\nArt Challenge:<\/strong> Acrylics
\nJournal Prompt:<\/strong> Cry Me a River<\/p>\n

I first gave some thought over the journal prompt. I know the song ‘Cry Me a River’ but did not want to use the lyrics. I took out my folder with cut-out sentences to see if I could come up with a few sentences\/words that would make a nice ‘found poem’. I found some and lay those aside.<\/p>\n

Then I thought of a photo from a fashion magazine that I cut out years ago, and found it in the file where I keep big images for collage. (I found more beautiful images in there that sparked my inspiration. Amazing, how you seem to forget what you have.) The photo I was looking for shows a woman laying on a bed and it looks like she’s crying – which fits the theme ‘Cry Me a River’.<\/p>\n

I prepared the art journal page with gesso and gave it a little dimension using a diamond template (see upper right corner.) Next, I sketched the image on the page and then painted it.<\/p>\n

When the painting was finished, the ‘found poem’ did not seem to fit. It just weren’t the right words for this paining. I also did not like how it looked when I added text in print on the page. Painted words looked better, so I wrote the lyrics on the page after all.<\/p>\n

Here’s the result.<\/p>\n

The Documented Life Project #15<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"dlp15-acrylics-crymeariver\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This page came about pretty quick, so I had plenty of time left to take out my gelli plate and start on the next prompt.<\/p>\n

April 18<\/a>
\nApril Theme:<\/strong> Color Safari (Exploring Inks and Paints)<\/em>
\nArt Challenge:<\/strong> Gelli Plate
\nJournal Prompt:<\/strong> A lot on my Plate<\/p>\n

I still had that ‘found poem’ that I had not used on DLP#15\u00a0 laying on my desk so I started from there. I interpreted the words\/poem as if it described a relationship in which people are not on the same wavelength. I used a silhouette template of a head twice, overlapping each other, to illustrate the words.<\/p>\n

However, the print missed the idea of confusion that I wanted to express, so I took out the sewing machine and stitched the heads. I left the end of the threads hanging loose. It made for the right view and gave the image the desirable feel. I scribbled some text (about how my beloved and I got a lot on our plate last year and how we don’t always reacted the same way on it) and glued the page in my art journal.<\/p>\n

The Documented Life Project #16<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"dlp16-gelliplate\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by today, and if you’re in the Netherlands (Zeeland) you might want to stop by ‘for real’ on Sunday. I will be presenting my art journals live on “Middelburg Boekenstad.” More info HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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