Journals: Numbers 2, 3, and 4

Though I've been spending a lot of time on my SAQA pieces of late, I've also been keeping up with my journals; I just forgot to post them.

Still fascinated with the possibilities of gel medium, I decided to tear up newspaper and use gel medium to adhere the strips to a piece of muslim. I must say, I think this looks so cool! (To give credit where credit is due, I tore up pages of the New York Times from January 20, 2008 and March 28, 2008.)


For this one, a piece of fabric I'd been using to wipe up paint spills was the background for the last gelatin plate print of a painting session. I colored in some of the swirls with a yellow oil pastel crayon, then topped it off with tracing paper pieces I had painted. Before I put the tracing paper pieces on the piece, I ran them through my Xyron machine to give them an adhesive back. I was surprised to discover that I could feed the torn strips through the machine without getting crumpled. The adhesive worked well everywhere but on the pointy edges. I'll probably use the Xyron machine again for collage.


And yesterday, I combined the twig I had sewn as practice for my SAQA piece and a reject from my twig gelatin plate printing experiment. I think I did this because it reminded me of a twig under the ice ... sort of what it looked like outside yesterday.