Using What I Have

What to do with the ubiquitous 'less than successful' gelliplate monoprints stacking up in my studio!??

 These little folded cards are fun to make.

The directions are to be found in Alisa Golden's marvelous compendium of book making mentioned here and here.

One leads to another and another...

...and ANOTHER!

These will be flying away as thank you cards soon.  

Working my way through 'Making Handmade Books' using surplus gelliprints is a constructive and fun way to make use of what I have.

Happy mid-week to all!

Drawing Challenge - Spider

web outside my studio

Spider - excerpt from my favorite book about symbols

making a spider stamp

starting the 5 of Spiders card

The 5 of Spiders - recycled business card with acrylic, gel transfer, pattern tissue, gold gel pen,  and rubber stamp

the deck so far

Thanks to Renilde for weaving her web of inspiration around us this challenge.  Many more arachnids to view over at her marvelous blog.

Cards to Play House With - drawing challenge

Ariane named the game for this week’s drawing challenge: Playing Cards.

I recently received my new business cards from the wonderful MOO and was glad to put my old ones to good use for the challenge.  I sanded the gloss down…

 …and gessoed them on both sides.

 Spent most of the week thinking up what my cards would be about, and had fun inventing suits for imaginary games, settling at last on a set of more or less domestic playing cards.

Daily drawing - Study for cards; Pigma pen and gouache in 8"x6" gamma sketchbook

Daily drawing - Study for cards; Pigma pen in 8"x6" gamma sketchbook

studio working sketchbook

 My suits are Irons, Letters, Spoons and Rings.

Four cards: 3.5"x2"; acrylic and Pigma pen with gel transfer & paper collage on recycled business cards

The One of Irons

The Two of Letters

The Three of Spoons

The Four of Rings

 Do stop at Ariane's place to see more clever cards at play.