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Lillia Colston, founder of Art Time Party.

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Tell me about your vision.

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Hello.

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I have started Art Time Party about 20 years ago,

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and originally it was just children's program,

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and I have been teaching art classes

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and art and science camps for kids,

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also doing children's parties.

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But year after year, parents would ask me,

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why don't you do something for us adults?

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So a year ago, I found out that it's possible

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to do these interesting parties on jelly printing.

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And I am in love with that technique.

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It's super easy, and I have been doing that since.

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So I want to show you my examples I brought with me.

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Beautiful.

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One more.

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And this is actually examples for upcoming events

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that I'm doing this Sunday at La Lida.

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It's a tea shop in Stone Oak area,

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and it's gonna be at three o'clock.

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So what actually do you do when you make them?

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And the concept is very simple,

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and anybody with no experience can do it.

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You just follow instructions.

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And to me, it's actually more about thinking

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and exercising your brain than working with your hands.

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But yes, you will be using your hands

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to make that monoprint.

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I want to show you the jelly printing plate.

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So this is kind of, it looks like a sensory toy.

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Yeah.

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It reminds me jellyfish.

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It does.

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It actually has a memory of its own,

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because if you put something heavy,

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it would make a dent in it.

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But again, if you take it off,

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it will go back to its original state.

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So it's quite fascinating.

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It's called jelly plate,

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and there are different names for it.

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It's mostly a nickname, but it is a printing plate.

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Originally, it was made out of gelatin,

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and you can make it using gelatin,

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but it's a polymer, and I just bought it.

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So you would take a brayer,

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which is a fancy name for a specific roller,

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and you roll paint on the plate.

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Put stencils, you can put flowers, you can put feathers,

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even different flat gadgets, not sharp.

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Take them off, and put a piece of good paper, and pull.

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And you do it multiple times,

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and you get something like this.

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Yeah.

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So it's different, obviously.

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It's easy, and you don't really need to have

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a lot of skills working with a brush, sketching,

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or anything else in order to make such a print.

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Like I said, it's more about exercising your brain,

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because you have to think in reverse.

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You get reflected image.

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So I think it's actually a pretty cool project

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to do for adults, like for team building,

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for office parties, when you don't want necessarily

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to have something mindless, so to speak,

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but yet fun, and a little bit of strain brain exercise.

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Not so focused on the logistics either,

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but more on just an activity

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that can bring people together in a new way.

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I can see that.

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It's really neat that you're doing this at La Tida.

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We actually had Leo Flores on the show a couple months ago,

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and I met you both in different places.

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So small world.

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And I want to circle back to,

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you said you got started a year ago with adults.

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How did you get started?

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You made that leap after 20 years.

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So what inspired that,

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and how did you go about getting started?

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I just got brave.

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Sometimes you just have to get brave,

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and think about you can do it.

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And also one of my colleagues, our teacher in Midwest,

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she was posting pictures of her jelly printing parties.

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And I saw like up to 40 people.

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I thought, wait a minute, if she can get 40 people,

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I don't need 40, I can probably get at least 10.

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So that's how it got started,

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because I saw interest in jelly printing there.

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Obviously we're not Midwest,

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and our location is different, everything is different,

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but yet there is a hope.

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Yes, absolutely.

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You know, a lot of, what was it?

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Stephen King said the difference between

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those who have potential and are talented,

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and those who are successful

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is a lot of hard work.

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So putting in the hard work

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is what typically sets us apart.

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There's a couple more questions I'll ask you.

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So one of the other questions that I ask leaders

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in your position is, it's kind of a curiosity poll.

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Why do you think that leaders like yourself,

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meaning like yourself and myself,

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sometimes hide from funding their visions,

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from going all in?

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You mentioned a little bit of fear on that.

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Just curious, why else do you think people sometimes

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hold back from really going after it?

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Oh, two different reasons.

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Reason number one, when they're already established

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in the community doing one thing,

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and they're successful,

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and the fear of being not successful,

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because, you know, why would you do that

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if you already accomplished one thing?

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Why would you reach for another one?

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You might not get it.

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So that's reason number one.

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And reason number two, again,

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being so known in the community could be a good thing

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and could be a bad thing.

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Good thing, you can rely on the community to support you.

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But then again, if community does not support your vision,

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that is like double hit below the belt.

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They don't support your vision,

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they don't support you, and boom, you fail.

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So that's the fear.

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It's so much easier was to get started for me,

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because when I started Art Time Party 20 years ago,

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nobody knew me.

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So it didn't matter.

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I had no money.

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I had nobody who knew me.

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So it really didn't matter.

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I think sometimes it's just easier to do that

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if nobody knows you at all.

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You fail, who cares?

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is gonna get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.