Batwoman Fails

 boy howdy...i'll bet you can hear

all the snap crackle pop of dem bones

from where ever you are

i bought a laser printer specifically to be able

to do image transfers using my art and a gelli plate.

i spent the better part of a day jacking with that

thing...i can get an image using a magazine

 photo but nothing with anything printed

 with this printer. i'm ready to toss it in the yard!

Necessity Is The Mother of Invention...

.....at least for those of us

with empty pockets

spent my afternoon making stamps

for gelli printing

$15 for one at artfoamie

is out of my budget

and quiet frankly

that price hurts my 

feeling...

The Sisters

 

i tried to do some clay mono printing that resulted in

a major fail. i could have kept trying but when it dawned

on me that i was limited to the material i could print on

i decided to try something different. i purchased a Gelli

Plate last year and had never even opened the package

so i dug that out and started experimenting. i'll have to

say...my first few prints were failures also. the majority

of my paints are not heavy bodied and trust me when i

say...it makes a BIG difference. i'm going to have to

"rob peter to pay paul" and go on a paint buying spree.

(i say that like it breaks my heart...snerk!)

 

that's my mother in the lower right corner and the

middle of the three girls. the others are her sisters.

i've got a box of old family photos that i don't think 

either of my children will be interested in saving

after i'm gone. i decided to put them all in an art

journal in hopes that maybe that will entice one

of them into continuing my position as the

family history keeper. i plan to include an index

in the journal with the names and a little history

of who is in each piece.