More Black and White and a Giveaway

I made a few more papers using stencils with a sponge roller, but also with the GelliArts gel plate.  On these I used Golden Fluid Acrylics (Carbon Black and Titanium White), and also Golden OPEN Acrylics, which have a very long working time (they dry slowly).

Here are a few of the papers I made, using 9"x12" Cheap Drawing Paper:

In this I used a stencil I made myself with Cheap Drawing Paper.

For this I used OPEN acrylic, and made the lines using a Q-tip.

For this one I used a homemade gelatin plate, 8"x8", and then a stencil over it.

 The following two images are digital collages studies.  They don't exist in actual material.  I was fooling around in Photoshop, manipulating the scale of each of my papers as I put them together in these pieces.  As I am investigating the issue of scale, I am wondering if making either digital studies or small paper studies might be useful.  I've never worked from studies, so it's a new process for me.

I am offering a giveaway of the 14-product set of Golden's A - Z Workshop In A Box, to one person, chosen at random from those who comment on this post.  Please say something about working in black and white, and/or something about scale.  I'm interested in your ideas.  Identify yourself uniquely (i.e. "Mary in San Diego" rather than "Mary").  I will post the winner on Thursday, May 28.  It is the responsibility of the winner to get in touch with me.

Stencils! and Online Composition Class

I did a guest post on StencilGirlTalk today, which includes a video.  Have a look.   Here are a few of the collages I made using the papers I created with the stencils.  The first four are 4"x4":

This one is about 9"x10"

Composition Workshop Now Available for Download

Keys to Dynamic Composition, my online class, is now available as a download.  As many of you have found, my online classes have been filling rather quickly, and I've had lots of requests to "squeeze one more in", which I can't really do.  On the group blogs I create for each class, I comment on everything that students post, and give individual feedback and suggestions.  This limits the number of people I can take in a class.  I am working on formatting some of my classes as downloadable self-study courses, and this is the first offering.  Meanwhile, I am developing new courses to be offered in the interactive group blog format in 2016. 

More Stacks of Shapes

Here are a few more, some of which have nudged me in new directions, or picked up on previous themes:

9"x12" To me these have a similar feel to the Shapes gel printed pieces I did last spring, which techniques I feature in my Stencils and Masks workshop.

9"x12"

9"x12" These first three remind me of the work of Meredith Pardue, whose work a very much admire.  She works on a much larger scale.

9"x12"

This last one reminds me of some earlier Big Fat Art, below.

19"x25"

22"x30"

19"x25"

This week at Omega we are going to begin with a series of "stacked shapes".  It's a good way to try out a lot of different materials and techniques, and get loosened up.