Screenshots

It would be so easy to just watch tutorials and never actually do anything!

It can be mesmerizing to watch the ways different artists approach their pages and canvases.  It's tempting to think that if you buy just one more thing you'll have everything you need.

I have taken screen shots from a variety of videos to inspire me to step away from the temptations and actually continue now in my actual art journals, making mistakes, making messes, and trying out some of the materials I now have stacked so neatly on my new shelving.  But first a few teasers:

Here are three examples of one tutorial about using the gel printing plates--these three all made by the 3 x 5 inch Gelli plate.

Here's a page from one of Mike Deakin's tutorials, in which he cuts a map into strips and uses it for a background.

Mike again here--stenciling over a heart cut out of corrugated cardboard...

And here is Marieke Blokland in her Wanderlust

class on drawing faces and backgrounds;