I have spent most of this week messing around with my gel plate! Which is good, because I have mentioned I wanted to use it more (although admittedly not recently). So I thought to myself, just get it out and do it! Stop tying yourself in knots about stuff and just do!
So I did!
And I went back and watched a few videos by the person who inspired me to get a plate in the first place. I'd stopped watching her videos back in January, and I was all, "this is your fault, so what are you up to these days?" and she randomly mentioned this other channel who does printing, and I thought I'd check them out, too.
So I also spent the entire week binge watching that channel! The guy who runs it also does collage, and his aesthetic is right up my street :D He also believes art should be accessible to everyone, so a lot of his printing tutorials involve using basic stuff to make something to print from - e.g. using masking tape and some plastic to simulate a lino cut, or paper layers and a glue stick to make a collagraph*.
And I think it's fascinating, and neat, and why t f doesn't art get taught like this in institutions?
Oh, right, because art isn't meant to be accessible [/sarcasm]
Anyway, if you also are interesting in printing and collage, and making art accessible, you can find this guy on youtube at Yeates Makes.
He's really given me some stuff to think about and use with my gel plate, which is awesome. Not that I don't like the techniques other people use (I do, or I wouldn't have bought the plate to start with), but I like also how it can be used to create similar styles of prints that would, traditionally, need a press, or way fancier equipment.
Of course, also now I am thinking about buying more acrylic paint when a) I cannot afford to and b) I still haven't used up most of what I already have. (But my cerulean blue is running out! Primarily because I use it a lot!)
Anyway, I'm making stuff and having fun, and it's all good. (here you can see some stamping I did yesterday on tissue paper with a circle stamp I made myself. It pleases me because it's so simple, but now I have several sheets of paper that I don't know what to do with! I'm sure something will occur to me eventually).
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In other news, I am reading Gideon the Ninth, and I am not sure I am the intended audience for it. I don't dislike it, but I can't say I love it, either. It's just...okay? This kind of makes me sad**, but also at least I didn't ask the library to buy this AND Harrow at the same time and then just not read Harrow.
Oh well, I shall at least finish it, and then just go back to not reading again, I guess!
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*I mean, to me, a collagraph is anything that's stuck, right? Because the "colla" bit is like the French word for glue (colle), so that makes sense (see also: collage). Except if you look up collagraph plate tutorials on the internet, they are complex and tedious, and involve many things your average person doesn't have. Like a printing press.
**I am fully spoilered up by my own decision, so I know what happens, and it sounds interesting, which is why it makes me sad that I'm not more into it.
So I did!
And I went back and watched a few videos by the person who inspired me to get a plate in the first place. I'd stopped watching her videos back in January, and I was all, "this is your fault, so what are you up to these days?" and she randomly mentioned this other channel who does printing, and I thought I'd check them out, too.
So I also spent the entire week binge watching that channel! The guy who runs it also does collage, and his aesthetic is right up my street :D He also believes art should be accessible to everyone, so a lot of his printing tutorials involve using basic stuff to make something to print from - e.g. using masking tape and some plastic to simulate a lino cut, or paper layers and a glue stick to make a collagraph*.
And I think it's fascinating, and neat, and why t f doesn't art get taught like this in institutions?
Oh, right, because art isn't meant to be accessible [/sarcasm]
Anyway, if you also are interesting in printing and collage, and making art accessible, you can find this guy on youtube at Yeates Makes.
He's really given me some stuff to think about and use with my gel plate, which is awesome. Not that I don't like the techniques other people use (I do, or I wouldn't have bought the plate to start with), but I like also how it can be used to create similar styles of prints that would, traditionally, need a press, or way fancier equipment.
Of course, also now I am thinking about buying more acrylic paint when a) I cannot afford to and b) I still haven't used up most of what I already have. (But my cerulean blue is running out! Primarily because I use it a lot!)
Anyway, I'm making stuff and having fun, and it's all good. (here you can see some stamping I did yesterday on tissue paper with a circle stamp I made myself. It pleases me because it's so simple, but now I have several sheets of paper that I don't know what to do with! I'm sure something will occur to me eventually).
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In other news, I am reading Gideon the Ninth, and I am not sure I am the intended audience for it. I don't dislike it, but I can't say I love it, either. It's just...okay? This kind of makes me sad**, but also at least I didn't ask the library to buy this AND Harrow at the same time and then just not read Harrow.
Oh well, I shall at least finish it, and then just go back to not reading again, I guess!
~
*I mean, to me, a collagraph is anything that's stuck, right? Because the "colla" bit is like the French word for glue (colle), so that makes sense (see also: collage). Except if you look up collagraph plate tutorials on the internet, they are complex and tedious, and involve many things your average person doesn't have. Like a printing press.
**I am fully spoilered up by my own decision, so I know what happens, and it sounds interesting, which is why it makes me sad that I'm not more into it.