Dear Liza,
You knew I wouldn’t stay down forever, right? Once an Adventure Grandma, always an Adventure Grandma.
So while I am getting up to speed after the Shingles knocked me flat, I am learning something that I’ve been wanting to try for a while:
Gelli Printing.
Ruthie Inman sent me the basic equipment years ago (because she knows I’m cheap and really wanted me to try it), a squishy gelli plate and a brayer. I pulled them out last week and I’ve been itching to feel well enough to jump in.
I watched several videos enough to feel that I had the hang of it….
And, as so often happens, only got the first steps right.
Sometimes I tried to roll paint over the masks, or got my left and my right mixed up, or this one, where I tried one too many layers and covered the whole thing up,
Finally, after watching Carolyn Hassard‘s beginning video all the way through, I tried a simple, two layer print. First, the background layer.
Then the second layer, green paint overlaid with some masks cut from watercolor paper scraps.
And finally, my finished print!
It is embarrassing how many tries it took me to get one simple print right.
But now that I’m feeling better, I realize that even if a print is not what you were after, or even ‘pretty’, it’s usually going to be interesting!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 