Celery as an art tool

As I was cutting different vegetables to make fresh juice, I couldn't help but notice how beautiful the celery looked. Perfect chance to play with my food!

I quickly brayered some color on my Gelli plate, pressed the celery end onto it and pulled a print.

After that I used it as a stamp, adding different colors and stamping it in my journal. I must admit that the results were really nothing special. If I had more time I would have used bolder colors and played with the placement more... maybe that would have looked less than a color splat.

Still, I had fun. It is always nice to do something creative, even when the result isn't spectacular.

Did you know that you can grow a new celery from it's end? I read about it today - here.

 Next time when I have a pretty celery end, I will try it.

Random show & tell

This is what I see when I open the door to our backyard - gray, gray sky and pink flowers. It has been constantly raining for days... and as much as I love rain, I am getting a bit tired of it.

I have been playing with simple color combinations and making decorative paper that I'll tear and collage in my journal. This one made me happy.

This one too.

And these are three pogo prints. It is so easy to create effects in photoshop and alter the image any way you want to, but for some reason playing with different techniques of distressing pogo prints makes me excited. For the first one I used acetone and sand paper, second one was soaked and burned and I forgot what I did with the third one. Fun!

I have been commissioned to paint a 72" x 36" painting, which is pretty big... To try it out, I painted on three 9x12" canvas boards. That was easy, but painting it on big canvases will be challenging for sure.

Speaking of big surfaces and commissions, I don't think I shared this image:

It doesn't look like much on the photo, but I was really proud how it turned out. There were many glazes od different greens and I liked it. It's hanging somewhere in New York now...

I'll stop my random chatter now... my dh will be back home soon and I think we'll light a fire and open a bottle of wine (or make tea) and chase the gray away.

What would you choose - a glas of wine or tea on a cold evening?

xo