Origami Box with Gelli Prints - Creative Team Thursday with Marit Barentsen

Whenever I play with my gelli plate I come out with a whole stack of 'backgrounds.'  I use one or two of those prints for a project that started the 'gelli session' in the first place, but I keep all the leftover paper in a file. The stack grows and grows...

  

My mum once taught me how to fold a paper box with a lid (origami) and so I came up with this little project to fold a box from the leftover backgrounds and film the process to teach you how to do it.

It's a quick and easy way to make good use of old backgrounds (or any other paper for that matter) and a hand fold paper box makes a lovely and personal wrapping to put a small present in, to give to someone on a birthday.

With Easter coming up, you can also fold some boxes and fill them with chocolate eggs or other candy. You can make a whole bunch of boxes, from very small ones (to put one piece of chocolate in) to bigger ones... don't you think that will look good on a decorated Easter table?!

So here's a video on how to fold an origami paper box with a lid, have fun!

The used gelli prints were made with these stencils:

·         Circles& Squares

·         Dots &Dashes

Happy Easter!

Marit

Marit Barentsen is a passionate art journaler, mixed media artist, art instructor and creative writer from the Netherlands. Marit inherited a passion for words from her mother, who is a writer. Her father taught her to not only “look “ but also “see.”  That combination led Marit to become an art teacher and her art always showed images and words. After art school, she worked as a graphic designer. Years later, she re-discovered the  combination of words and images in art journaling and her art took flight.  Marit's art has been published in various magazines and art books. 

Find Marit on her website, Facebook page, and  blog.

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Creating a Collection

Hi folks.  Many of you know that I have a toe in the licensing world with my artwork on Judaica products, greeting cards, and other surfaces.  When you're pitching your artwork for licensing, it's  important to show prospective licensors how your art will look on their products.  Although I do all of my drawing and painting on paper or canvas, I learned Photoshop to be able to make parts of my images into repeats, and "mock-up" products with my artwork.

Here are two recent instances where I did this, and also created "Sell Sheets" to show my work.

Below is a page from my art journal, where I outlined and doodled in pen and filled in with watercolor. Here's how it looked in black and white, and then painted.  

Art directors see a lot of art, so if you can lay it out on potential products, you'll have an edge.  Here's my example:

As you can see, I created a background for my design, showed it in a square, in a round, on some oven mitts, on an apron, a coffee cup, coordinating designs, and a border.  All from one art journal page!

Highly textured mixed media art is a little more challenging, but here's an example of one I just finished.  

The original, is a spread in my art journal (featuring my Hebrew Calligraphy & Hamsa Stencil  and the Peacock from January 2014 Stencil Club, as well as Mary Nasser's Compass stamp from RubberMoon and Pam Carriker's Cordelia Stamp) :  

and here's the Sell Sheet: 

  

Because I don't envision this design on as many products, I only show it in different variations, an allover pattern, and a few mock-ups.   It's important to only show your design on appropriate products - don't just place them on everything (for example, there's no reason to mock up a banana design on a coffee cup!).

Here's a great blog post about creating a Sell Sheet.  Thank you Natalie Timmons for generously sharing your experience and knowledge.  A great resource for learning Photoshop is Lynda.com.  And Phyliss Dobbs created great templates for mock ups, which you can purchase and download. 

Here's a video of me painting a face.  It's not the woman in this piece, but I hope you find it helpful anyway!  You can see other examples on my YouTube channel.    I hope you'll become a subscriber!



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