{"id":1788,"date":"2016-08-04T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2016-08-04T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T04:23:00","slug":"painting-play-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"Painting Play-Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After winning, at a charity auction, a week at a large, lake-side house in Delaware, I invited a bunch of friends to come and play. On one of those mornings, three women answered the call to make art. I brought fabric, paints, brushes, a couple of brayers, \u00a0a Gelli art printing plate<\/a>, and a mess of empty\u00a0plastic containers, jars, and lids. I demo’ed what I’d learned about monoprinting:<\/p>\n

Dab bits or globs of\u00a0of acrylic paint on the Gelli plate, and roll it out with a brayer. Brush on dots or drag lines with the tip of the brush handle as the spirit moves you. Then, flip the plate\u00a0onto fabric (I started with an orange print), and roll over it with a second, clean brayer.<\/p>\n

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Lift it up, and see what you’ve got. Add more monoprints alongside or on top. Add dots and dashes and lines of paint.<\/p>\n

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Below, check out\u00a0part of another piece I belabored. I really wasn’t thrilled with anything I made. No matter! For me, this is just a start…I’ll cut up painted pieces for sections of an art quilt, or make art quilt postcards, adding other scraps, plus lots of decorative stitches.<\/p>\n

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What really gets me jazzed is how my buddies, all\u00a0monoprinting novices, absolutely, positively surpassed me in creating much more successful art pieces. And came up with techniques of their own that I never would have discovered.<\/p>\n

Claire dared to use the same swirly-print fabric, but with a fun, folk-arty flair:<\/p>\n

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This intuitive Alaskan\u00a0also used the Gelli plate to pick up excess paint from her fabric, then turned the plate 90 degrees and rolled over the brayer to deposit perpendicular patterns. Claire shows off one side, then the other. Which do you like best?<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Barbara of Bucks County, PA channeled Monet. I loved how she used clear plastic containers to alternate with the Gelli plate for monoprinting.<\/p>\n

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Finally, Dr. Marjorie of Narberth, PA mainlined\u00a0a thoroughly modern, expressionist vibe, a la Miro, or Braque:<\/p>\n

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Again,\u00a0we found that the paint that leaked onto the back of the fabric had a simpler, more compelling design. Serendipity goes a long way!<\/p>\n

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Monoprinting can be fairly monotoned, but is never monotonous. Printing over and over with the underside of a clear plastic container leads to a powerful abstract statement.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to Miss Peggy, for taking over the photographing, given that our hands were full of paint!<\/p>\n

Working with paints and various tools makes for lots of trading brushes\u00a0and plastic lid paint palettes…and\u00a0lots of mess. All the better to find a buddy or two or three to share the setting up, cleaning up, and fun. Can’t wait for the next play-date!<\/p>\n

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