I love using pigment inks on a gel plate and I love the soft effects that you can get with them. I am using inks by Altenew but you can use any pigments inks that you have, including Distress Oxides.
Pigment Inks are slightly opaque and dry slower compared to dye inks so you can have fun experimenting with them! Plus you will get lots of bonus ghost prints.
I love anything woodgrain or that will give me delicious texture so when I saw these, I knew I had to get them! You can definitely try these tools with acrylic paint as well.
Watch my video tutorial below:
I hope that you enjoy my video tutorial, if you have any questions please do let me know.
Have a great day!
Tania
Materials:
- Gelli Arts® printing plate 5×7
- Gelli Arts® Mini Tools
- Gelli Arts® Mini Placement Tool
- Brayer
- Packaging for texture
- Pigment Inks
- Wood Grain Tool
- Die cut waste
- Stencils
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Would really like a link to those curved tools! Thank you
Hi Julie! Here’s the link to our mini placement tool! https://www.gelliarts.com/products/mini-placement-tool?_pos=1&_sid=7bbdb8698&_ss=r
I wanted the link to the curved plastic tools that you used to achieve the woodgrain effects. That was the title of the video and why I watched it. Thank youl
Awesome makes Tania, thank you so much for the inspirational tutorial, stay safe and have a wonderful day.
Do you need to watch the amount of pressure put on the grain tool so you don’t damage the plate?
As long as its not sharp it will not damage the Gelli plate!
I think you can get curved wood grain tools at a painting decor shop like Benjamin Moore, but Amazon has them too. Look under “wood graining tools”