My biggest motivation for taking the
Fabulous Flowers class is another chance to learn from an artist I admire,
Elizabeth St. Hilaire.
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And...the thought of painting with bits of recycled painted papers makes me kind of giddy. I've been saving interesting papers, book pages, and ephemera for years and I can't wait to start painting them....and painting
with them.
Another motivating factor for taking the class is that I'm terrible at painting. But the idea of doing a loose underpainting then collaging over it seems rather hopeful...and at the very least a fun way to face my fear. I'm kind of chuckling....because I'm actually not very good at doing anything
loose....so we'll see how this goes.
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I've used my gel plate only once....and it was a hot mess. I've seen so many artists use their painted papers in such creative and interesting ways and I'm looking forward to learning and practicing the techniques. A gel plate is a squishy slab that you can roll paint on with a brayer, create textures, then make mono prints layering colors as you go. There will be much more on gel prints in the next few weeks when I really get rolling.....pun intended.
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This image of "painted papers" is from
Elizabeth's online gel plate course...I just adore all the rich colors and textures. In the class we will create a "palette" of colors that we'll tear up into bits to paint our Fabulous Florals. How fun it that!
These sweet paper painted birds by Elizabeth just make me melt.
I'm thinking a fabulous bird is in my future too!
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