Michelle Davis Petelinz, Artist

Saharan Landscape  18” diameter bamboo bowl

Wall hanging is painted in four sections to denote sky, air, sand and underground.  Sculpted clay spiral pieces adorn the air, and textured clay bars travel across the sand level.  Both sky and underground levels have raised, textured surfaces, and metallic pen outlines delineate each section.

I’m a mixed media aritst, working in acrylic paint, polymer, and hand painted paper collage. I’m also a part-time art teacher, full time wife, mother, sister, aunt and citizen of the world.

I love turning my designs into stamps. I love the “Zen” of cutting into a new rubber carving block, and I’m also enamored with my new method of creating stamps with “fun” foam.  This month, I’m teaching a stamp-making workshop:  “Hand Carved Stamps with Polymer Clay,” at Jerry’s Artarama in Raleigh. I’ll share techniques for making stamps which can also be used with paper and fabric. Click hereto register for the April 18th workshop.

Today, I’ve been working with my handcrafted stamps and my Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate (have I mentioned how much I enjoy working with this fantastic invention?! Okay, yes, I guess I have, just a couple of times!) to create the monoprints above. I’m loving the ones which look like African fabrics (they’re all papers), and I have great plans; they’ll be showing up in projects I’m working on for my upcoming shows this summer.
Back to work…photos to come!

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