I am currently taking Sally Hirst’s “Approaches to Abstraction” course and it is absolutely fantastic. One of the assignments inspired me to pull out the gelli plate I bought months ago. What a joy! It took me off the rails of the course and straight into endless explorations with things I have found around the house and things I pick up on my walk. But it is also a wonderful way to explore mark-making with different (not too sharp!) scraping tools.
Having completed Sally’s ‘Monotype and More’ course earlier this year, I know how liberating and versatile a gel plate can be. September, yes writing aside it’s been harder to get going again. Sometimes it feels like everyone else is already motoring... I guess we have to accept that the resistance is trying to tell us not to force things.
I was just having this internal conversation with myself today “it is okay to do the laundry and take a walk and read that thing for work. And that might mean there is no time for painting. And that’s okay because there is time for everything. Just not today.”
Having completed Sally’s ‘Monotype and More’ course earlier this year, I know how liberating and versatile a gel plate can be. September, yes writing aside it’s been harder to get going again. Sometimes it feels like everyone else is already motoring... I guess we have to accept that the resistance is trying to tell us not to force things.
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I was just having this internal conversation with myself today “it is okay to do the laundry and take a walk and read that thing for work. And that might mean there is no time for painting. And that’s okay because there is time for everything. Just not today.”