Florence Turnour's Blog

I did some Gelli prints last night, combining three ideas. Two were techniques for the background of a print, and the third was to ghost print a piece of origami. Experiment #1: Making a stamp from interfacing I saw this blog post , about making a stamp of sorts out of fusible interfacing, on the Gelli Plate blog, and thought I'd give it a try. I fussy cut heavy, double-sided, fusible stabilizer to make some background stamps with flowers and leaves. Interfacing, fussy cut and ready to iron Some prints and the used interfacing stamp I print on mixed-media paper and on deli paper. Today, I spent a lovely afternoon at the Art Lounge putting my more successful efforts into my art journal. The white of the journal page made the leaves pop through the somewhat translucent deli paper. ORANGE! and leafy in my art journal Do you have tips for gluing deli paper down without wrinkles?  I used gel medium, putting it on the book and then applying the deli paper. The de...

I've been taking mixed media classes with Marah Johnson at the Art Lounge  ( facebook ) in Huntington Beach  off and on for a couple of months. The shop is great and Marah always has loads of tools, inks, paints and ideas, so I keep signing up for more. Today I took my kids for an afternoon of art with Marah. The each worked on canvases, making a large sihlouetted image. First the boys painted the backgrounds. The two boys had visions for their designs, and dove right in. After drying their canvases in front of the fan, they traced their stencils. Marah had a variety of silhouettes ready, but my boys had their own ideas. Stuart wanted a velociraptor (dinosaur-- it's all about the toe claw) and Benjamin wanted a P-38 Lightening (airplane). Stuart painted in his outline, first with gesso and then with shiny tan paint. Benjamin cut strips of paper to fill his outline, which was Marah's original concept for the project. She noticed how much Stuart enjoyed ...