ATCs from a Masterboard – Pushing through the Ugly Stage of your Art Work

Hi everyone! Pushing through the ugly stage is something I have to do quite often when I create in mixed media. Whilest building up layer upon layer there comes a stage when I feel it doesn’t look good anymore. Pushing throught this and keeping on working on the piece is then sometimes really hard. What I’ve learned over time is, that it’s normal to come to this ugly stage and that it’s always worth pushing through it. In the end most of the times the result is pretty and if not, you still have learned something. Some people might say time is wasted when you don’t create a beauitful piece of art. I don’t think so. I enjoy the process itself so much, in the end it’s not important what came out, it’s important that I showed up!

For today’s ATCs I am creating a masterboard with many layers in mixed media inspired by a colour palette my daughter created on the gelli plate. I am using a viewfinder to cut a bunch of artist trading cards from that masterboard and will then finish up six of them using main images from my Textured Mushrooms, Inky Mushrooms and Inky Friends stamp sets.

Halli hallo! Heute teile ich sechs ATCs erstellt von einem Masterboard in Mixed Media. Dafür verwende ich unterschiedliche Materialien wie Collage, Neocolor, Acrylfarben und Stempel. Die Farbpalette habe ich meiner Tochter “geklaut” sie hat vor kurzem ein bisschen mit der Gelli Plate gespielt und dabei eine tolle Farbkombination gefunden. Die Hauptmotive auf meinen Kärtchen sind Stempel aus meinem Textured Mushrooms, Inky Mushrooms und Inky Friends Stempelset.