Here’s a great way to repurpose styrofoam plates to use in monoprinting! Watch this video for ideas on how to make your own unique reusable designs for gel printing! It’s fun turning styrofoam plates into reusable texture plates with your own designs! They’re perfect for creating texture plates — especially for the small Gelli® plate sizes! Here’s …
Printing on a different substrate is a great way to change things up. Watch this video and get inspired to create Gel prints on nonwoven fusible interfacing! Nonwoven interfacing is a wonderful material for printing with Gelli® plates! It looks similar to dryer sheets, and its intended purpose is to add extra body to fabric. But …
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Pressing a handmade layered texture plate into a painted Gelli® plate is a fabulous way to create a unique image! Watch this video for a demonstration of this easy technique. You can make texture plates to match the size of your Gelli® plate, or make smaller plates that can be used as stamps. This technique is especially …
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In this video you’ll see the 12″ x 14″ Gelli Arts® Gel Printing Plate in action! Printing on fabric with acrylic and metallic fabric paints, using MagicStamps™ — with plenty of tips and techniques! Many monoprinting techniques work just as well on fabric as they do on paper. Watch this video and see how fun and easy …
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Gelli® plates have a unique surface that allows you to pull monotypes on clear adhesive film! Watch this video and see how easy it is to do! For this fun and easy technique you’ll need: Gelli Arts® Gel Printing Plate Acrylic paint (fast drying paint is best for this technique) Brayer Texture tools Clear packing …
In my last blog post I talked about using different media to add color to Gelli® prints that aren’t quite “there yet”. What I didn’t mention is that there’s “another side” to the story. Literally! Back of overdyed Gelli® Print On a number of prints, where the print surface was saturated with dye, the color …
He’s a shape I cut out — and he’s one of my favorite images to use as a mask in my Gelli® monotypes. In fact, I like him so much I’ve cloned him Using masks is an ideal way to create interesting imagery, focal points and repetitions in your Gelli® prints. A perfect tool for …