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A baby llama decorated with neck tassles in pink and turquoise is tethered to a bright green lawn. A patio with an open door is behind. On the patio are two large clay pots with red flowers in them.
January 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Shapes
Watercolor. Granulating paints, salt, cling film.
Blue, orange, and yellow semi circular shapes reminiscent of water and sand with green and blue vertical shapes in the distance reminiscent of mountains and a horizontal band of pale blue across the top reminiscent of sky.
January 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Day 24: Handmade book
#bookart #gelplateprinting
A book with a cover made from a botanical gelli print. At the top are white daisies with a bright pink background. At the bottom are white grasses and ferns with a bright green background. A bookmark in an abstract pattern in pink, green and white lays in front of the book cover.
December 24, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Day 22: Mixed media collage
#gelplateprinting #mixedmedia #collage
A paper cutout of a bird on a leafy branch in purple with a botanical gelli print of a fern in pale green and abstract strips of gelli printed tape.
December 22, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Day 13: Handmade book "a book of ferns"
page 9 and 10
#bookart #gelplateprinting
Acrylic botanical gelli prints in a handmade book titled "a book of ferns". On the left side page are sword ferns in white and purple against a teal background. On the right side page are sword ferns in white and light blue against a blue and purple background. This book has a single signature and since this is the center of the book, the ends of the white wax thread binding are visible and tied in a bow.
December 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Day 12: Handmade book "a book of ferns"
page 11 and 12
#bookart #gelplateprinting
Acrylic botanical gelli prints in a handmade book titled "a book of ferns". The left side page is a bracken fern in a light blue-green with black ink details against a magenta background. The right side page is a bracken fern in purple with white highlights against a purple background on white paper. There is an abstract textured strip along the right edge in teal, purple and cream.
December 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Day 10: Handmade book "a book of ferns"
page 3 and 4
#bookart #gelplateprinting
Pale yellow pages are the background for acrylic botanical gelli prints. Bracket ferns in magenta over assorted grasses in white with teal background. A wide strip of an abstract pattern in magenta, teal and purple goes along the right side edge.
December 10, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Day 9: Handmade book "a book of ferns"
page 2 and 3
#bookart #gelplateprinting
Page 2 and 3 of "a book of ferns". Bracken and sword ferns in white, light blue and teal against a purple and teal background. Acrylic gelli prints.
December 9, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Day 8: Handmade book titled "a book of ferns". Front and back cover.
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#gelplateprinting
The front and back cover of a handmade book. The title is "a book of ferns" and is on the left of the front cover in blue text. The outside edges of the covers are teal. The edges towards the spine are botanical gelli prints of white bracken ferns with black ink detail against a magenta background.
December 8, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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Day 7: Watercolor on yupo
A white swan floats in a swirl of light and dark blue water. To it's sides are grasses in green and teal. Behind it are yellow greens speckled with white and the impression of an evergreen tree.
December 7, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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DAY 4: #gelplateprinting #monoprint #watercolor
Acrylic gelli plate print of a fawn walking from left to right against a yellow green background. There is a dark brown tree trunk to the left and to the right. In the foreground are black botanical prints of grasses, seed pods and fir tree sprigs.
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Day 3: Handmade book
#bookart #gelplateprinting
Handmade book cover made from an acrylic gelli plate print. Teal colored fir tree sprigs over a background of red iron oxide with bits of yellow. The binding is a tree branch wrapped with teal raffia ribbon.
December 4, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Day 2: Acrylic gelli print
#gelplateprinting #monoprint
Botanical gelli print of a single green sword fern centered over an abstract background of green, purple, and teal. It hangs from a tree branch.
December 2, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Day 1: Handmade book
A handmade book cover made from a botanical geli print of assorted ferns. The ferns are in teal, purple, blue and white on a magenta background.
December 1, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24

Watercolor 10x16
Abstract landscape in blues, greens and yellow. A mountain peak with a layer of rock strata below, then a layer of meadows spilling into water.
December 24, 2023 at 6:12 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15

Wire sculpture in the style of Calder.
She shakes her head side to side by moving the red knob.
Black wire sculpture of a cheerful woman's face. She has copper wire curly hair and copper wire hoop earrings. She can shake her head from side to side.
December 15, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 10

Monoprint done on a gelli plate.
5x7 image printed on 8.5x11 turquoise cardstock.
Bird standing on a branch over a nest with three eggs in it.
December 10, 2023 at 8:14 PM