Geri deGruy's blog of art, musings, and inspiration

Flow of Ideas

I go to my studio to work and sometimes my mind is a blank. Often though, if I just start something, (cleaning or looking through art supplies or gazing at a color wheel), some inner voice will chime in and get me moving in a creative direction. If I'm lucky, ideas begin to bounce around in my head and flow.

This piece started off with paints. I didn't like what I'd done so I covered up most of the paint with other paints and dragged through that to get some of the bottom layer colors to show. I stamped on the top and bottom with stamps I'd made with rope and with foam circles. The middle section of purple with stripes is a transparency that I painted on with a gel paint. (See this link for a cool how-to by Jane Davies) The black ovals are made of tissue paper. White and black markers were liberally used. I don't know how many layers are under this facade but it is finally finished and I'm rather fond of it. Hope you like it!