I have been fighting a cold for the last couple of weeks and I had zero ideas for this Sunday Inspiration.

So I decided to share what I do for my daily practice. For my daily growth. ……I play.

I also wanted to use a bunch of stencils for gel prints that I haven’t used in a while.

I create with no real plan, I do what makes me happy, and I try not to think about a finished piece. (if it happens that’s great) But that’s not the point. The point is to show up, to keep a routine.

I think of it like exercise or establishing any lasting change or habit. I have to show up every day.. or almost every day and do something. It’s not about perfection, it’s about keeping a promise to myself.

And just like after I exercise, or eat right, or show up and create my daily practice…. I feel better, I’m proud of myself.

And what’s even better after creating I feel inspired… I get ideas and am inspired to create even more!

So I hope if you feel stuck today…. show up, show up for you.

I hope you have fun watching some gel prints come to life and then me just having fun with my papers.  And always know that you are loved.

Get the original HERE and the print HERE

Supplies used:

• 11×14 Canson mixed media paper
• Gelli Arts Gel plat 8×10
• Brayer
• Copy paper, tissue paper, medical exam paper
• Liquitex matte gel and Liquitex fluid matte medium
• Liquitex gesso black and white
• Acrylic paint any colors you like (ultramarine blue, lime, sunshine, teal, cobalt teal, burnt sienna, unbleached titanium, raw sienna
• Posca marker broad tip
• Grabie white acrylic marker
• Generals charcoal pencil (ex. soft), soft pastel pencil white,
• Palette knife (set), scissors, tape

Stencils used: THESE WILL BE ON SALE THIS WEEK

• Messy Marks 1 9×12
• Doodle Flowers 3 9×12
• Doodle Stacked Stone 9×12
• Collage Fodder Script lg. 9×12
• Collage Fodder Circles lg. 9×12
• Collage Fodder Swirls w/masks 9×12
• Flower Mask 3 9×12
• Flower Mask 2 9×12
• Scribbly Vines w/masks 9×12
• Abstract Play mask 9×12
• Scribble Squares mask 8×10
• Snakeskin mask 8×10
• Just Angles mask 8×10
• Geometric Flowers 1 mask 8×10
• Playful Flowers mask 9×12