The first thing I did was write a letter. After I completed my letter I had to figure out how to represent it using art. We each received a piece of wood to use in whatever way we wanted to represent the letter.
I decided to paint my wood block white and splatter paint it with really bright colors to make it pop.
After the paint dried, I wanted to do a gel medium transfer to put butterflies on it. This is done by printing an image and using the gel medium on the wood which pulls the ink off the paper to go on the wood.
To get the paper off I used water and rubbed it off gently so the ink wouldn't come off with it. Doing this makes the image look as if it were printed directly on the surface.
I decided to make it look as if it were a puzzle so i took sharpie and outlined the pieces. The letter I wrote, I typed it and folded it into an origami butterfly since we had to include the letter in the piece somehow.