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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Shelter - DC

Renilde, a wonderful painter and blogger extraordinaire came up with this week's drawing challenge, 'shelter'.  As someone who has used a house symbol in her work for years, I seized the theme naturally, and found it a great subject for monoprinting on the early Christmas gift my mother gave me: a Gelli plate.

These monoprints are all done on a 9x12 gelli plate using acrylic paint.

I found that I liked the way my Golden acrylics performed better than the Liquitex brand I got on sale recently.

I stayed up far too late last night working into my monoprints with watercolors and inks.

The acrylic acts as a resist, and the possibilities are ENDLESS!

This is an example of a 'ghost'print - what happens when you pull a second print from the plate.

Sorry about the quality of these photos - no natural day light available around here right now...  (also sorry to be a bit tardy in posting my DC).

I am using freezer paper to mask out my houses and ladders.

The circle was made with a selvage strip of fabric.

Monoprinting is one heck of alot of fun, and working on gelatin - as Linda Germain does - or the Gelli plate which is sort of a permanent gelatin plate - makes it possible to do so without a press.  Linda's blog is packed with generous how-tos and tutorials, plus her own art which is vastly inspiring.  Gelliarts also has a blog with many tutorials and loads of inspiration.

As I sat in the pool of warm light at my dining room table last night happily coloring my prints, I reflected on the comfortable shelter our home is.  Outside the snow came down, while me and my pets were cozy inside.  Grateful?  YES - absolutely.

11 comments:

  1. Nice prints! I still haven't used my Gelli plate yet. Have a great week. xo

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  2. your prints are beautiful, I love the houses, all the variations!
    I can see you had a lot of fun and inspiration, imagine you and your pets in your shelter home place, so very nice.
    Now I am going to have a look for this technique of monoprinting.
    x Stefanie

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  3. dear Sus, it's obvious you had fun, sheltered by your home and creativity, i can feel your enthusiasm and passion in these wonderful momoprints, how you played with colors and composition, very catching,
    thanks for taking part, xx

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  4. Thanks for the kudos. Love your shapes especially the "flying" ladder.

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  5. wow- how inspiring this new medium is- love seeing all the different variations! just beautiful!

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  6. wow!!!
    these are amazing Sus. The texture and colours are great but the compositions are what I love the most. They are really good. I may have to get me a gelliplate :)

    Enjoy the week

    Helen x

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  7. I follow Linda Germain's blog for a long time .... lóve her work (and tutorials !) But I don't know where to get the stuff to make the plate ... grrrrrrrrrrr !
    What fun Sus ! I can imagine that you didn't want to stop !!!
    Indeed : enless possibilities !!!!!

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  8. Hi Sus, we were both late this challenge but as the saying goes "better late than never!" Monoprinting is sooooooooooo much fun! Yours turned out beautifully. I love the wings on the house and ladder. Such a interesting idea to ponder for a bit in my nice warm house. Have a great week. We got snow the other day....yes really! xo Carole

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  9. Hi Sus. Great prints! I love them all. Beautiful colours, lovely compositions. LOve the houses and the ladders. I bought myself a gelli plate as a birthday gift over a month ago.... but it seems I have been chicken to give it a try. Not sure why... Perhaps I should take a ferry down to your place and we could play with them together. Wouldn't that be fun! Yes the dark and cold are here too. -40 today... but soon the sun time each day will begin to increase. Hang in there!

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  10. i believe you have mentioned the gelati in the past and i was already very surprised and intriguid then. thank you again for all of these links, this is something i would love to dive into one day in 2013.
    i love the results you've pulled here, especially the ghost one. eerie, and fetching for the theme too, i find.
    great work, susan!!
    n♥

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