...apparently, because I like to utilize everything. I had a bag full of fun foam bits left over from my recent foray into the world of
fun foam gears. They were all shapes and sizes, and just begged to be used.
I chose a full sheet of fun foam and started placing them on top in an abstract design. When I had one I liked, I adhered them with gel medium.
That looked a tad boring, so I started incising them with my handy-dandy double-ended incising tool. Does anyone have any idea what this thing is called? I'm sure I must have known at one time, but it's now buried somewhere in the archives of my artist brain, unable to be recalled.
Some hours later I surfaced to a fun foam texture plate that was totally different.
Each bit of the raised surface was patterned like a tangle gone crazy.
Of course, I had to do a test run on the super-size 12 x 14 Gelli plate, and pulled this first print. It somehow reminds me of a souvenir map of Venice I had in my stash. Can't you just imagine all those lovely canals filled with exotic gondolas and even more glamorous gondoliers?
After pulling a few prints (no way could I stop at one) I love how the mother colour on the fun foam plate pulls the look of the plate together, in spite of the variety of coloured foam bits.
I'd love to know how you use your scraps from projects...feel free to put a link to your posts on this matter in the comments below, since I'm sure my readers would as well!
