They have such a short growing season. Around here it is usually late November until late January. Andy found these tiny ones at the Farmer's Market this morning but they are definitely the last of the season. In high season they are usually twice as big! Still yummy but it just reminds me that some things are seasonal so enjoy them when I can.
HERE is more info about them!
So I have been thinking about the blog and wanting to add more floral colors now that we are starting to get some much-needed rain and Spring is approaching... and then when I came home from work today I saw some of the Icelandic Poppies my husband had planted had gone crazy and bloomed up during the day -- what great color!
Both are gelli-printed backgrounds with collaged bits of other gelli-prints, used postage stamps, and some rubber stamping.
And these are just in time for Mandarin Orange Monday which I can link to tomorrow!
I have gotten a lot more swaps in over this last couple of weeks and will get something photographed and posted soon!
Linked to:
Mandarin Orange Monday
I checked Swap-bot and found a couple of new swaps for orange postcards and ATCs and then realized it was Monday and I wanted to post a photo for Mandarin Orange Monday and there it was, all over my work desk (to which I may also add a link on Wednesday for WOYWW)! *** Edited on Wednesday: I added it!
The cards are collaged bits of gelli printed deli paper onto yet more gelli printed card stock. I collaged it then cut into 2 postcards and an ATC for the swap. Now I will add more bits to them and maybe some doodles to get them ready to send out. You can see my still orange brayer and bits of gelli printed deli paper (I may start calling that GPDP for short!) in the background...
Makes me want to run to the store and buy some orange juice!!
Linked to:
Mandarin Orange Monday
Colorful Gelli Party
Creative Every Day
WOYWW
When I was visiting my friend in Anchorage last week we went downtown to some arty places, and among them was a cool fabric store called The Quilted Raven. It was there I found this amazingly cute puffin fabric! I had to get a fat quarter just to have it, with no idea of course what to make with it yet... it was just too cute to pass up!
Linked to:
Mandarin Orange Monday
Blue Monday
I am realizing I have no idea how to NAME an abstract painting! So for now this one is Window Reflections. That might change quickly if someone gives me a better idea for what to call it! Feel free to leave suggestions!
So... remember this? A bunch of orange, black and white on a 6" x 6" canvas board...
Well this is what it morphed into...
I am calling it "Wormhole".
Question to my painting friends: How do you display these small 6" x 6" canvas boards?
Linked to:
Mandarin Orange Monday
Inspire Me Monday
Monday Mellow Yellows
Create Daily
Blue Monday
Also not really sure what to call it so for now it is Sun and Rain. That could easily change...
Linked to:
Paint Party Friday
Orange You Glad It's Friday
So when I got home today I played around with some paints and thought about the weekend and what I wanted to do artwise. Not decided yet, so I will just stay open to a visit from any muse that happens to pop into my neighborhood and go from there!
I want to work more on this. So far it is layers of collage (book pages and music paper) and inks and paint on 10" x 10" canvas. The blue is one of my stencils. Not sure yet what I want to make with this background.
Amazingly it has both orange AND blue! And no doubt will have a lot more as it gets done!
Linked to: Paint Party Friday and Orange You Glad It's Friday.
I really like the Bloom one... I am liking this doodling idea!
Linked to: Paint Party Friday, Art Journaling Everyday, Orange You Glad It's Friday, Show and Tell Saturday, The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge, Inspire Me Monday and Mandarin Orange Monday.
The other page I made for this group was using one of the month's techniques: overwriting. It is something I have done on other art journal pages too. I like it because it is possible to write out something that maybe I need to say but don't want anyone else to read. The technique is to write one line then write over it as you go down the next lines. I tend to go over it all a few times, and this time I tried it with various colors of paint marker pens over and over a few lines. The rest of the page isn't very pretty as it was mostly a test of the paint marker colors and some previous stenciling.
I was looking back through some of my travel photos from recent years (looking for art inspiration) and found a few that I wanted to post for all the orange challenges I have been doing lately. Seems I am very much called to the color orange lately so these excited me to see again.
The inside of a church in Prague:
A post box in Prague:
A mosaic bench on Green Street in one of London's East Indian neighborhoods:
Breakfast salmon in Estonia:
Beautiful flowers at the Midsummer Fair in Riga, Latvia:
The beautiful terra cotta orange tiles of Trakai in Lithuania:
Ok, I think I like the color orange! (And many more travel photos another time)
I love a Linky Party!
Linked to: Mandarin Orange Monday, Color Connection, Art Journal Every Day
First make a design on the Silhouette software:
Then cut the stencil with the machine. It is a bit noisy!
After it is cut, take it apart and you have the stencil and all the parts from inside to play with as well. What I like about this is that I can resize the same design and make a couple of stencils of various sizes to use.
Next prep the gelli plate. THis time I used some pink and purple cheap craft acrylic paints.
Making a print: The bottom part is weird because I wiggled my arm and it didn't print exactly smoothly but no big deal, I just use it as it turns out!
And later making a print from the inside parts of that same stencil:
It doesn't always have to be printed with the gelli plate. Here is another new stencil that I used spray inks with:
Linked to: Gelli Party (Carolyn Dube)
This is a gelli printed label page (using some of the new stencils I have been making):
Linked to Mandarin Orange Monday and Carolyn Dube's Gelli Print Party
Here are a few newer Gelli print pages that are screaming mandarin orange:
and one more gelli print...
and finally an art journal page looking very orange (with a gelli print background)
