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The first two are more trials and studies. I used several stencils to give everything the right colour. The house was okay, that's simple. The mountains are more complex and I forgot a shadow in the first one! I'm also still struggling a bit with values and hues and how they are cold/warm or complementary etc. I need more practice, but this is hopeful!

The images show too vibrant colours, in reality the green on the second image is much less intense.

But the real progress is the third image!!! I managed to combine two monotype prints (three actually) on one substrate! Now I can first make the background, leave open space, pull that in several pulls from light to dark and then I can have the house as a new gelli on top of it! I finally nailed the final pull with gel medium instead of paint.

Now I had to go from dark to light as its first making the foreground, which I think is more challenging...

Ha! Work and effort does pay off!

I totally discovered something new! I was doom scrolling and accidentally came across a graffiti artist. Someone making political statements, so she has to be quite fast. I saw her using a deadly simple register method to put stencils and then spray paint and done.

I'm like, yoooooo I can do that too!! I can make several stencils, put them on the registration tool, brayer the layers, and pull everything in one go!

I also saw some WPA style posters (US, 1940ies) and how those mountains are done wasn't that far off my latest attempts. So, now I'm trying to combine it.

If this trial works, I think I'm getting myself some Yupo paper to eliminate the buckling paper!

All you see is WIP to prepare the stencils before putting them on the gelli!

The small one looks about the same. I think it's a good attempt, but it's overall too dark. I find it difficult to estimate the results when colours are layered on top of each other. I do like the roughness but I also like the sharp lines of yesterday's post.

I'm in the middle 😂

I was really in a stage where nothing worked for a while, but thanks to your kind comments and all the upvotes I feel motivated again and I'm sure these two impressions will reflect that! I am trying to set out what I said yesterday.

The house coloured in the lines, but the landscape with heavy brayer strokes instead of masks and even coverage.

Both are now drying, as we can only post once a day, I'll show the results tomorrow!

Thanks again everyone!

The first is the one I had on the gel plate in yesterday's post. The second one has the same image transfer but I coloured it differently and the third is my comfort style as to speak. Next step: I want the composition and landscape of the first two prints but with the heavy brayer of the third.

Let's see if I can pull that off (pun intended).

I could not for the love of whoever get the image transfer right. Instead of one house, I want to have two in a landscape. But the render from Blender was off, thus Editing in GIMP was off, then, of course, also the image transfer was off.

😖 But in the end I managed. Redid everything again and on the plate is now a great transfer! Hope the print will be good too!

But motivation is somewhere in my left little toe.

I'm so happy to see the differences in such a short time! Instead of mixing the paint to adjust the vibrancy, I put a quite transparent layer of grey and then built up colours on top of it. So I don't have to mix each colour that much, which also saves paint. But the results, OMG 😱 love it!!!!

Yes yes, I see the mistakes, but I'm improving with intentional and planned pieces!

The previous version wasn't as I wanted, this is much better. Perhaps quite some black at the bottom, but that's how it is with this image transfer. I didn't remove the spots on the top either. On purpose. I wanted to have it more raw and I think I managed

These two prints are from a similar image. I modelled the house in 3D and then image transfered one of the renders. But. Yooo..... The blue version (12"x9" on A3 paper) failed because I used too much white at the top, and the orange version's (10"x8" on A4 paper) image transfer isn't up to standard. The roof is totally disappearing in the black. Also the paper, which is good paper, is quite textured, so there I should have used more paint. This post is NOT meant as valuation of the work, it's to say that intentional gel prints/monotypes are harder than the more 'rough' idea/concepts and all the 'happy accidents' I made before.

I think I pulled 15 prints today and still it's not up to the level I want it to be. Brrr... Tomorrow another day!

Quite some time ago I started this traditional Malaysian house. Many of these houses are abandoned for multiple reasons.... Quite sad actually.

This is a 1:1 scale model, including the interior. But I was thinking, let's keep the house in a relatively new condition but put it totally out of context.

So, that's what I did! Still work in progress, colour grading is not done yet and the gate in the second render still needs work. But I'm happy with the results already, especially after working with Blender for a year or so. I also did some art using physical medium in between.

Let's see how it will be!

This version is kind of okay? Maybe? The next one has a more yellow/orange background, and a light blue MJ haha

It was fun experimenting!

How cool is that?! Image transfer on a gelli and then recoloured it in pop-art style!

The cat really wanted to show it 😂

One of the leaves went out of frame! But that makes it unique too!