Florence Turnour's Blog

My Tree Overfloweth - Florence Turnour 2020 This project started with a palette of collage paper.  I chose a palette of colors, then I painted thin lightly waxed Sandwich Paper (deli paper) using these colors, using a gel plate and some of the stencils I designed. I created a large tree stencil, painted a black rectangle on watercolor paper, and sponged the tree onto the background. Then I started designing animals. I drew the animals in pencil, and used the photocopier to resize them until they fit nicely on the tree. I cut the drawings out, and traced the shapes onto my collage paper. For the small details like eyes and ears, I assembled the shapes before cutting them out. Here they are. I worked on this one type of animal at a time over months, between working on other things, and not having time to do any artwork. I posted the individual animals on Instagram as I went. I made a few animals that didn't go on the final tree. These rhinoceroses were too busy, and ended up in a s...

School started today, so I got behind in Creative Jumpstart while I prepped. Today I really enjoyed Nathalie Kalbach 's demonstration and snuck a little time on it. I love the result. Such a great idea, collaging a drawing. I love the line I get from the cut edge. Thanks, Nathalie! Thanks for looking!

Here is my project from  Creative Jumpstart , Day 9, inspired by Gwen Lafleur . This one is collaged gelli prints. Thanks for looking!

Day 10 of Creative Jumpstart was a lesson on Gelli printing by Annie O'Brien Gonzales . I'm a big fan of her work, and I have her book, so I had a flip though for additional inspiration before I got going.  I used a new stencil I just designed and my Gelli plate to make this. Some of it is collaged from Gelli prints on deli paper. I just bought some Posca paint pens (I blame Andrew Borloz), and used the yellow to draw on the flower. I was tempted to keep drawing all over it, but I thought the better of it. Thanks for looking!

Day 7 in Creative Jumpstart  is a lesson on the Gelli plate by Rae Missigman . It took a few tries to get the right amount of ink on the Gelli plate to make this happen, (tip: roll it on THIN), but once I got it to work, it was great fun. Here are some of my more successful and photograph-able attempts. And here is a collage I made in my art journal. It was tricky to print right into the journal. I ended up flipping the Gelli plate onto the journal page, and then slipping my hand underneath between the pages to burnish it. Thanks for looking!

Day 30 Day 31 Day 32 Day 33 Day 34: Gant Gator Graduates (1) Day 35: Taking a look at a Gator photo Day 36: Gant Gator Graduates (2) Day 37 Day 38: Emergency backup drawing for a day I was too lazy to put on my paint pants Day 39 I made a couple of them into buttons. I'm going to have to think "round" when I design the next few. I definitely need buttons of these.  My projects from these 10 days were inspired by Ed Emberley's collage work on books he wrote with his daughter. Thanks for looking!

Here is my next batch. Day 20: Collage Day 21: Cardboard birds Day 22: Collage Day 23: Collage Day 24: Acrylic ink (dip pen) Day 25: Acrylic ink (dip pen) Day 26: Acrylic ink (dip pen) Day 27: Acrylic ink (brush and dip pen) Day 28: Acrylic ink (brush and dip pen) Check out them 2 mm pigs. Day 29: Acrylic ink (brush and dip pen) Most of these days up to day 29 are inspired by these books: Thanks for looking!