This abstraction covers the back and front of an old hardback, textbook. First coat of acrylic didn't cover well and took forever to dry. Decided it was too humid, so put it in proximity of dehiumidifier. It dried and received another abstract, brayerd-on coat if acrylic. Still looked blah. I gelli-plated a new stencil (twice) and transferred that image to the front and back of the textbook. I saved the images from the stencil on watercolor paper and plan to use those for the book's binding area. So, a work in progress, but it was the gelli plate stencil image that made all the differenct. (Does this count for enough techniques?) 

Below are the images I pulled off the gelli-plate after stenciling the book. One was not great, so I started adding watercolor to the light spots to try to get a resist that would end up looking like seaweed, but even with wet-on-wet green, yellow and blue, I wasn't happy but can imagine some fish collaged to cover up some of the blotchy areas. I have not decided what to do with the one on the right that looks like a sharper image, and I like that one.

Judy Williamson-Batson

PS Saving and covering that textbook was purposeful since I plan to use its pages as a quick way to brayer off paint from the gelli-plate. That's an idea from another class, but supposedly the process  may magically accumulates into collageable scraps. I'm game! Yaaay for scraps to cut up and use later.