the folly

The context here is dungeons and dragons. Made in procreate.

Latest batch of prints. A5 sketchbook, mini gel plate, acrylic paint. Gel prints from pages of Vogue and New Scientist, old textbooks, cardboard scraps, and a leaflet from my GPS waiting room about menopause. Text cut from a newspaper, religious junk mail, an old thesaurus, and various magazines.

I have been slacking terribly on my penpal duties and haven't written a single letter to @supervillainny this year so I painted this for her as an apology.

So I'm still not getting the results I want with gel plate printing, but it does take a while to get a feel for the right amount of paint and timing/pressure with the source images. Also, turns out that black and white printouts from colour laser printers work much better than printouts from monochrome laser printers, but the colour ones are wayyyy more expensive. For magazines, Vogue works the best but I'm just not particularly interested in making prints of random models.

mixed media squares (and the occasional rectangle) in my sketchbook. pinterest shows me this kind of thing a lot, addn I like it as a low-pressure zone-out no-wrong-way-to-do-it have-fun exercise. I've merged some of the little collages together in procreate with the intention of painting the abstract images on canvas.

String hot-glued to a canvas, covered in tissue paper, and painted.