Registration OPEN for the New Gelli® Plate Class!

NEW Class!

Doing MORE with your Gelli® Plate
Instructor: Carla Sonheim
6 Lessons – 3 Weeks
October 16 – November 1, 2018

Hi everyone!

This new class combines three of my favorite things: Animals, Printmaking, and Artist Books!

With imaginary animals as our theme, we’ll start with some cutting exercises to create our own stencils from found shapes and contour drawings. From there we’ll be working with a variety of techniques including ghost prints, masking, and transparent layers. We will be working with fluid acrylic paints which gives us some unique results and textures, different from the traditional heavy-bodied paints normally used with the Gelli® Plate… it makes for lots of happy accidents!

One of the great things about gp printing is that you can create a lot of artwork in a short period of time, and this class is about making lots of stuff!

Once we have a pile of prints to work with, we’ll be going in with mixed-media to complete your animals. Some of our pieces we will stand alone as finished art pieces, and others will be bound into our Artist Book.

This class is about experimenting and following where it leads… and having fun at the intersection of accident and intent! Please join me!

Carla

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Click HERE for more information!

 

FIVE Things

Five things I wanted to share today:

ONE.
Tony Bennett: “Jazz is so fabulous, because you do the same song you did the night before differently than you did the night before.”

TWO.

THREE. 
I was in Santa Barbara, California, last week, helping a friend with her teenaged daughters while she was away on a business trip. The girls were wonderful and easy and the weather was beautiful… and Santa Barbara is one of the most beautiful places I know! But I felt kind of melancholy all week… the last time I really spent that much time walking Garden Street and my old neighborhoods (and downtown) was almost 30 years ago, when I was a young woman, and my oldest child was the cutest, friendliest toddler in the world. I miss him.

FOUR.
My computer got too full again last night and I had to move the file titled “BOOK” to an external hard drive. (“BOOK” is a folder full of images and Word files and Indesign files that supposedly I’m trying to organize into a new book now that I have a studio with a door that closes [that my office/studio was in the middle of our living room was my excuse for the last five years of why I haven’t been able to get my head around organizing said book].)

There were over 3,500 files that needed to be moved over.

Wha??????

FIVE.
Two drawings by my grandson, Liam (who turns 7 tomorrow!):

Have a wonderful day!