warming up.goofing off

"eye thought" photobooth .bulge.

i spent the day warming up.
i have a few important projects
and collaborations looming and
have not spent a bit of productive time
at my art table in well over a month.
warming up is a necessary part of my process,
creatively speaking.
i started my warming up by goofing off.
hence,the wacky self-portrait....deep in thought,
well,sort of. i guess goofing is part of that same process.

my friend and exceptionally talented artist,jen worden
posted a monoprint challenge a day or so ago.
i gathered my tools:

• 11x13 plexi glass
• brayers
• tweezers
• liquitex acrylics
• a variety of papers
• masks

and took her up on it.
i used brilliant yellow green,
alizarin crimson hue perm.,chromium oxide green,
deep turquoise and dioxazine purple.scrapbook paper
and stonehenge were papers at hand and i dragged out
a couple of heidi swapp masks to play with.
a really satisfying exercise...just what i needed to warm up,
thanks,jen!
my renditions below....