March ATCs 2022 - 01 and 02

 The task for this month’s ATC for a local artist trading card group was to create a piece of art from a list of different prompts.  For instance one could make a list of ten techniques numbering each separate technique or prompt.  Then you could roll a dice and use those numbered techniques in  the work.  The one on the left used the following:

1. Gelli plate

2. Use a piece of ephemera that has a language on it

3. Use something old

4. Use some sort of paint

5. Use an empty teabag

6. Use a graphite pencil

The one on the right:

1.Gelli plate

2.  Numbers

3. Green ephemera

4. Curved line

5. Teabag

6. Paint

7.  Piece of language ephemera 

Sight - 25

 

This is the last composition in this book.  I had wanted to do a video of the whole book but guess who entered this book and the one on touch into the NW Collage Society Spring Show without doing just that?Yup, me!  Not only did I not make the video but I did not scan each of the 25 compositions in the touch book which is the sister book to the sight book.  So I can not even show that book until after May 30 when I retrieve it from the show.  Never fear, I have works to publish but not in order of completion.

This piece leads us to the book on touch and will debut in June.

Sight - 24

 

One of my visitor to my blog, Becky, recommended that I look at a YouTube video on image transfers that includes using a first layer of Stazon ink.  The link is:  https://youtu.be/TE1nAbRYq74.   I tried the process and it works well.  Thanks Becky. :-)

Sight - 23

 

My favorite parts of this piece is the pop of red and the striped lines in blue and the ones in black.  It makes for interest.

Sight - 22

 

The French word TABLEAUX is another one of those cases where the transfer did not work but I like how the paint adhered to the word and so I used it here.

Sight - 21

 

During the text transfer process which is not an exact science some text transfers and some does not.  It all depends on the glossiness of the magazine text and the amount of paint applied to the gelli plate.  Too much definitely does not work, too little and no result either.  Sometimes text comes out like above coloring the piece of text one is trying to transfer.  Text like this one is a failure in the transfer process but I rather liked it anyway and decided to use it in this piece.

Sight - 20

 

This is the only abstract eye in the series.