05 Print & Collage Collaboration with Fulton Sim NYC

This is a print sent to me in Texas from Fulton in NYC.Thank you so much, Fulton, for your suggestion and selecting me to do a collaboration with. I learned so much, just as you said I would. I overcame my fear of ruining your beautiful print, fears of documenting my process, my "country girl twang," and all those judgments from others that we go through when we become "content creators." Your channel is amazing, and I appreciate so much that you wanted to help me launch my channel. What generosity. You Rock!!!

Thanks to all of you who are new subscribers and finding my website. Thank you to my other mentors and coaches, Judy Woods, Pam Caughey, Bette Ridgeway, and Jason Horejs, for your encouragement in so many ways.

This is my early journey into large format printing on a gel plate (16x20) and more recently, Gelli Arts 18" x 24" newest plate. I've been gel printing on smaller plates to create collage papers for many years but never with this large format, until I went through a hard season losing my husband to brain injuries. I came across Fulton Sim at @artwhisperer88 who continually inspires many of us with his retro minimalist printmaking and sometimes, he's inspired from other modern art masters, as he demonstrates.

I'm inspired by Fulton, his art practice, his methodology, and his desire to educate the YouTube audience about printmaking and create a sharing community here, but I'm going my own way of exploration with printmaking in an effort NOT TO COPY him. I hope I inspire you in some small way, too.

I'm still not 100%. I have health issues, chronic pain mostly and I'm moving forward in life. I anticipate my artwork making MORE huge leaps! If I can do this creative life, so can YOU. Remember, Dreams Never Die.

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