Hi there; Bob here. Today, I want to show you how to create a contemporary landscape using a few soft colors, graphite, ink, and a couple of different Gelli Arts® gel plates. The paint I used here is Golden paints new heavy body colors in Titan Green Pale, Titan Violet Pale, and Light Orange. I …
Gelli Arts® Contemporary Landscape Print by Bob Pennycook Read More »
If you are like me and you have a few extra prints that you made with your Gelli Arts® printing plate then this blog post is for you! I have accumulated hundreds of prints from playing with my gel plates and they are starting to take over my studio! I decided to try my hand …
Collage with Gelli Arts® by Catherine Tonning-Popowich Read More »
Hi, Clara Lieu here! I am an Adjunct Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Partner at Art Prof, a free website for learning visual arts. I’ve worked in printmaking for several decades, but I only recently discovered gel printing plates at a workshop I took at the Massachusetts Art Educators Association …
New Gelli Arts® Reductive Wiping Technique by Clara Lieu Read More »
Hi all, welcome to the Gelli Arts® blog. Bob Pennycook here! Since the majority of my work is landscapes, I thought I’d show you how I create a contemporary landscape using my Gelli Arts® printing plate, sponges, torn paper, tape, and oil sticks to produce an image of sun, water, earth, and growth. Check out …
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The sphere of people learning about and using Gelli® printing plates keeps increasing—and more and more people of all ages and levels of art experience are discovering the joy of mono printing. I’d like to welcome those new to the Gelli® plate printing process — and thank those of you who have been following this blog …
Gelli Arts® Printing Tutorials—5 Fab Techniques Revisited! Read More »
Get a head start making your own custom-designed texture plates forRound Gelli® platesby beginning with pre-cut cardboard cake circles! Watch this video and see how easy it is to create texture plates for monoprinting using these corrugated cardboard circles. The baking aisles in craft stores are stocked with a number of products that have potential use …
Gelli Arts® Gel Printing with DIY Cardboard Texture Plates! Read More »
I’ve been having some fun with the new ‘Media’ product line from DecoArt. In addition to the Fluid Acrylics artist paints, there’s Gesso, Modeling Paste, Texture Sand Paste, Crackle Paste, Crackle Paint, Antiquing Cream and several Varnish finishes. I love that the Modeling Paste and Gesso are available in black and white! All of these …
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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Chine collé is a printmaking technique where lightweight paper is adhered to heavier paper as it’s passed through a press with an inked plate. The result is a print on a collage. Watch this video to see how this process can be adapted for Gel printing! If you’d like to print on fragile vintage papers, brittle book …
See how you can achieve an intaglio effect — without a press! — using a styrofoam printing plate, a ballpoint pen, acrylic paint … and a Gelli® plate! Intaglio (pronounced in-TAL-ee-oh) is a printmaking process using a plate that has been inscribed or etched. Ink is applied to the plate and pushed into the grooves. …