Category: GELLI PRINTING

Stitching, part 1

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I feel like everything is a test right now, everything is a sketch. I don’t have a clear direction at all, which isn’t a bad thing necessarily, but I feel a little impatient to find a focus. Trying to remember to be patient and enjoy the process.

slow stitching over gelatin monoprint

I’m spending a lot of time just stitching tiny stitches. It’s meditative and I love the textures that the tiny stitches create. Here, I tried something a little different and stitched over a gelatin print experiment.

slow stitching over gelatin monoprint

I was thinking of cells and connections and the spaces in between.  I was also just enjoying the ways the colors influenced each other. And, of course, I love the texture.

slow stitching over gelatin monoprint

If I continue, where will this go? Should I just keep stitching the way I have been? Should I add other fabrics? Should I paint parts of it? Use wax?

Circle Studies

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Circle study blocks

I wanted to do a bunch of circle blocks with the circles cut into quarters. That’s where I started. I cut some white and off-white fabric and used a circle stencil over a gelli plate to get the print.

I don’t know where this palette came from; it’s so far from what I normally use, but I don’t hate it.

I wasn’t sure where I was going, but I knew I wanted a lot of variation in these prints.

I did some positive prints and a few negative ones.

Some with string masks and sprayed some with water.

I like the ghost print in the bottom right of the block below. It was printed twice, once with the grey outside and then I overprinted the ghost print circle.

Even though the circles were all the same size, I didn’t cut the blocks all the same size, so there’s some places where the edges don’t meet up.

Another layout of the blocks.

I am going to do this again, a little smaller, with different colors. I also want to experiment with layout and not making all of them back into circles. I’d also like to try using a block print to apply the paint instead of the gelli print to see which I like better.