Yesterday’s creative play / gel plate 1 workshop

Saturday’s playful and energetic workshop brought lots of surprises for all with two eager and willing participants. They were very ready to go all out and dive into the play aspect of getting into their creative spark. We all had fun!

After relaxing and becoming acquainted, we began by following the prompt of playing with the art supplies in front of us; paint, crayons, markers, water and rags, scrapers and pencils all brought to cheap craft paper. Not time for the gel plates just yet, just time to move and get into the flow. 

With smooth, flowing music in the background we were soon up on our feet getting into the feel of the materials in our hands and the no mind relief of no plans just response. Way fun! We kept that going for a while.

Then it was time for the gel plates. We explored how the paint felt as we rolled it out on the plates, what could happen creating texture with tools and materials leaving imprints in the paint, getting it ready for mono printing. We then moved to playing with stencils, some store bought, some handmade and some simply torn paper. 

These two creatives got a great feel for how the process keeps moving and changing with each pull, with each layer. The results were so rich and filled with many surprises and they were so into it!!!

Their work follows below. Enjoy! 

         M’s pieces follow below     

                          

            

                                                           

                    

                 

                      

  

   

       

                                                                              

         

A’s work is below