Am I done...

...making papers for the Layer by Layer Demo Days?  Maybe.  With upwards of 30+ papers, possibility of hundreds of combinations, there's more information than my brain seems to be able to hold.  🤯

I painted solid(ish) papers,

painted or printed black on white,

created sheets for the first lesson, and then did the suggested 'photocopy chop and smash option' (my wordage, not hers),

and tested it for a border.  If the photocopies were better, I'd likely glue this one down as I find it rather mesmerizing. 

I took a trip to the dark side, printing on black paper,

on semi-transparent papers, 

and created some wildly painted/printed ones as well. 

I've now got a stash of really interesting shapes,

that I could play with for weeks.

I've started auditioning them just for fun,

and I'm pretty sure this could go on for months and months before I secured any of them to paper.  

Somewhere in there, I did the next layer on the Playful Painting lesson from Tracy Verdugo.  It's a long way from done yet, as 'somebody' needs to put some foliage in those vases. And I'm sure there's a lot more Tracy Verdugo fun to be had in that course.

I sure hope you're having fun in your part of the world, and are as bemused with possibilities as I am.  Nothing beats a creative brain on the run, does it?  

It's madness, I tell you....

...total madness.  I'm always pressed for time in the studio (and isn't that true of all artists?), and yet I signed up for a teaser classs related to Layer by Layer  with Jane Monteith. So I've been scrambling to even watch the videos, never mind actually try them.  The full course will have to wait, I suspect!  ;-) 

That's why my studio floor looks like this:

We started with monotone magic play in the first lesson, creating cutouts and playing with them.

From then on to mark-making in the same lesson, and that's always one of my favourite things to do.

I admit that I am less able with a paintbrush than I am with any kind of writing stick implement,

but I enjoyed the process enormously regardless.

I particularly like this wonky piece of marks.

We moved onto colour in lesson two, and I've barely gotten started.  Given that we're working on a gel plate, that's really surprising.  I've a need to play both with a new palette and with different ways of  playing with the plate, so there will be some hours involved here, I suspect.

I have a pile of scraps, now some of the overpainted, that will definitely come into play in the third lesson, which is about composition.

Already I can tell it will be endlessly entertaining,

and, like Alice, it will be down the rabbit hole for a very long time.  Feel free to click on the link in the top paragraph, and learn more about the full course.  Insanity enjoys company, you know, and when I take it, I'd love to have you around for the ride!