Tag painting workshop

 The five of us had a fun day decorating tags using a variety of mediums, mostly molding paste, stencils, paint and a little ephemera.

 Pinky had purchased a big box of fairly large red tags and shared them with us all and that was what we decorated.

 Our main object was to experiment with the media and see how different applications affected each other.  For instance, what happens when you apply gesso to the tag as a first layer and then paint over it with acrylic paints as opposed to applying paint directly to the paper tag.  Or how molding paste works over or under paint, or mixing paint in with the molding paste to color it before using the paste on the tag.

 We were writing our "formulas" on the back side of the tag.  Or at least we started at first but soon got into the fun of creating tags and just played.

 I think everyone made at least half a dozen tags that they were happy with.  They were pretty fun to make and everyone learned a bit and had a good time.

 We did the workshop at Karen's house.  Above shows Pinky, Karen and April.

April and Gwen, hard at play.