a constant project

Way back in June, I took a Gelli Plate Printmaking class from Celeste Douville at the Schack Art Center. It was a great afternoon of playing with paper, paint, stencils, and textures to create monoprints using a "gelli plate", which was new to me. I left motivated and imagining all the gelli printing I would be doing....

And, then I remembered I have a 3-year old, work part-time, and usually a million other things around the house that need to be done, so the my gelli plate went untouched for quite a while.

But, I was determined to get it out and try creating some prints for Christmas. My love of Christmas projects helped me carve out a few hours here and there to play. (I mean really, this is about the only time of year I get super motivated and have consistent blog entries.

I have decided that anything can be an ornament this holiday season. This new mindset started with some old, very old, jar lids.

I bought a tub of rusty, retro jar lids from an artist several years ago for $3. I love them. I used a few for this "wall art" piece I made right after I acquired the lids. However, since then the rest have been sitting in a tub in my laundry room.

They came to mind when I was a trying to come up with some ideas for new ornaments.