The First Month of 2020 so far!

January 01 with Nathalie Kalbach

Part One

Part Two

January 02 Raw and Quirky with Marieke Blokland

January 03  Drawing Jewelry with Jane LaFazio

January 05 Tiny Book with Tina Walker

Outside Front

An Inside View

January 06 Into the Shadow with Iris Fritschi Cussens

January 07 Mixed media Gelli Print with Birgit Koopsen

January 08 Making Mistakes Tapes with Carolyn Dube

January 10 Card Series with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

January 11 Keep It Simple with Marlene Meijer-Van Niekerk

January 13 Be Myself with Mystele Kirkeeng

That's all folks!

January 7 Project with CJS 2020

January 7th's project is with Birgit Koopsen. Her SUPER POWER is Mixed Media Gelli Prints.  I was trying to do my first one and made a lot of mistakes!

I made the mistake of going back and forth watching the video and then going to do my gelli painting. So the paint was dry by the time I got the paper to print on.  

But not to get defeated I tried spraying cardstock with water and letting it be damp, with the Gelli resting on it.  That didn’t work.

Next I remembered that if you cover the surface with clear shipping tape, the kind that is about 2 inches wide, it totally cleans off your gelli plate. So I got some dry computer paper and I covered the surface of the gelli completely with tape. Then I carefully lifted the tape off and applied it in one piece to the clean dry paper. It worked! I have a tape print! My painting composition is too equally divided, but next time I will know how to do this and be more asymmetrical and interesting. What a neat technique! 

7" x 5"

Gloria J Zucaro's "CJS 2017 with Birgit Koopsen"

I missed posting yesterday because I had some dental surgery and then some pain meds and didn't feel like doing much at all!  So today I did the project with Birgit Koopsen, and later did today's assignment. Birgit did a wonderful re-purposing of a very plain wooden stool. Her technique is so simple with wonderful effect. First she made her own deli papers decorated with acrylic paint, stencils and stamps. She also collected some printed materials with text. After ripping the papers into small pieces she applied them to the stool. She also used a complimentary paint color to make a design on top of the collaged papers.  Then she did doodles over the painted areas.

Really beautiful!
With time being short, and nothing to repurpose, I did a page in my journal to use her techniques and try her supplies.

Stage One, making papers

Stage Two, Collage

Stage Three, Adding Paint

Stage Four, Add Doodles

Have a nice day tomorrow.  I would love it if you would leave a comment below.

Thanks so much!

Gloria

Gloria J Zucaro's "A Week With Jean Mikel Basquiat"

Hello there.  This week with Creative Jumpstart 2016 was inspired by Jean Mikel Basquiat.  I am posting to Paint Party Friday.  Thank you Eva and Kristin for hosting. I had instructive videos again this week and will show you the resulting projects below.  If you want to see the steps for each one, you can go back to my posts each day this past week.

with Birgit Koopsen

with Tori Weyers

Ideas from Paula Phillips and Diana Trout

with Jodi Ohl

Have a great week everyone.  Please leave a comment if you are so inclined.

Gloria

Gloria J Zucaro's "Self-Portrait inspired By Jean Michel Basquiat"

Today I am posting the first of what will be five paintings or mixed media projects led by five more of the 25 artists in Creative Jumpstart 2016.  Our artist to be inspired by is Jean Michel Basquiat.  When I first took a look at his work I actually felt myself pull back.  I felt it was full of anger.  But then as I looked more closely I understood better the individual pieces of his work that I might be able to work with. Our first instructor for this artist is Birgit Koopsen. Here is my final page.  There is an example of his work below as well as the steps to my piece.

Below is one of his works.

So as our instructor for this first day of Basquiat did, so did I!  First find a portrait of yourself, then trace it onto your surface.  From there I added a stencil, Dylusions paint, Sharpie marker and scripto pen work to imitate a Basquiat.  Some steps are below, with the final page.

Stencil from Stencil Girl by Jessica Sporn, "Borders".

I hope you are enjoying viewing these projects as much as I am enjoying making them.  It is so important to step out of your comfort zone.  See you soon!  Leave a comment if you are so inclined.

Gloria