I have been having fun with some inventive mark-making layering time since being introduced with the theme “tracks” and coupling that up with the designers Seth Apter and Gwen Lafleur. It had me fascinated with how we set ourselves targets/targets and have good intentions particularly initially of a  New 12 months and the way by mid February I overhear how some have given up no matter objective they set and so on and so on la la la…usually me included…and in order this weblog submit was on account of come out across the finish of Feb I made a decision it would be good timing to make a small journal to file milestones/prompts or targets to place you (and me) again on observe…it is also excellent timing for the beginning of the hundred day problem for these of you who participate in that…so I do hope you will get pleasure from what I have been as much as this time and possibly make one thing just like file your progress in…

I used to be thrilled with this session’s focus being on Seth Apter as I completely admit to being a little bit of a ‘Sethaholic’. I like grungy layered mark making and all of the worn scribbly bits it entails. Including Gwen Lafleur into the combo would positively permit me to have extra enjoyable with layers! 

The within pages are gel printed utilizing PaperArtsy fresco end paints on recycled cartridge papers and layered and stitched tissue papers. I believed it could be apt to make use of colors created by Seth and use his latest ESA33 stamp set with Gwen Lafleur’s new EGL34 stamp set so as to add complimenting element to some mark making layers.

So the very first thing I did was seize a number of colors by Seth Apter and paint them on some scrap paper…I knew it was going to be robust to restrict my color palette as all of them work properly with one another.  I usually restrict myself to a few colors however this time I believed I’ve just a few pages to play with…I knew as soon as I began which colors would fall into place…

I did the identical with EM48 and PaperArtsy fresco end Heavy Cream acrylic paint making some actually enjoyable marks.

I actually like to over-stamp a picture to create texture…bear in mind to let this layer dry earlier than including one other layer of acrylic to tug your picture which helps so as to add depth to your print.

While my rubber stamp was nonetheless moist, I stamped it on one other gel print to construct layers and make extra attention-grabbing marks.

Have enjoyable utilizing the stamp units that you just get pleasure from working with to make just a few totally different pages. Right here I stamped the gel plate first then waited for it to dry earlier than rolling via a stencil, doing it will carry among the stamped areas making it much less uniformed…I let that layer dry too earlier than including a skinny layer of acrylic to tug the print.