#gelliprinting — Public Fediverse posts

What a fun afternoon we had yesterday at Brook Arts Hub in #StratforduponAvon learning the basics of #gelplateprinting.

Since I sold my etching press I've been looking for an alternative printmaking method which can easily be done from a small home studio. Perhaps the playful and experimental process of #gelliprinting is the answer? We shall see.

Thanks to Stephanie for guiding us!

#art #workshop #printmaking

Cutting circles today... I'm sure they'll be useful later. 😂

#gelliprinting #diecut

Cutting circles today... I'm sure they'll be useful later. 😂

#gelliprinting #diecut

Cutting circles today... I'm sure they'll be useful later. 😂

#gelliprinting #diecut

Cutting circles today... I'm sure they'll be useful later. 😂

#gelliprinting #diecut

Cutting circles today... I'm sure they'll be useful later. 😂

#gelliprinting #diecut

I suddenly remembered I had a YouTube channel that I'd edited a video for back in June and then just didn't voiceover it... Until today.

Wanna see some gelli prints I made in June?

https://youtu.be/bUKHWJFo5So?si=xHHX7D125Z201cXO

#gelliprinting #art #collagepapers

I'm still trying to convince myself to do the voiceover for my next video, but if you'd like to see some of my gelli prints, I flip through a bunch of them on my last video!

https://youtu.be/Hg4p5jrWbuc?si=Ps6nFpUGR-N1tDfw

#gelliprinting #gelliprint #gelprint #gelprinting #monoprint

I'm really into floral doodles and forgetting to post pictures of what I'm working on. 😂

#doodles #collagefodder #gelliprinting

It's always when the camera isn't rolling that you pull the happy accident print.

Was experimenting with some spray ink on the back of a gel printed tissue paper, and it got wet enough to stick back on the plate, so I guess it wanted to be printed on more substantial paper. 😂

#gelliprinting

So, yeah... I decided to make a YouTube video today. SO that's a new thing that I'm going to try and do. 😅

Wanna watch it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fEAeeRxOo4

#gelliprinting #stenciling #arttalk

Some prints are just very satisfying with how imperfect they are.

#gelliprinting #lace

I've been taking the time to sort through gelli prints today, and oh boy... I have an intimidating pile of "needs more work" and "cut me up" papers.

I may need to lie down from overwhelm. 😅

#gelliprint #gelliprinting

I don't play around much with laser and magazine transfers in my gelli prints, but I did get an interesting one when I was making masks with magazines...

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Experimenting: water-soluble oil pastel and dilute gouache on the gelli plate.

Start by rolling out a good layer of clear acrylic gesso, to create a workable surface, but work with a light touch, as it's fragile.

Next time I'd dip the pastels in water so they slide better.

#printmaking #monoprint #gelliprint #gelliprinting

Playing with spraying alcohol or water (fine spray or bigger droplets) onto acrylic paint, on the gelli plate. #fun

Tips:
▪ I used heavy body, and first thinned the paint a lot with retarder. Thinning with water wasn't as good.
▪ pickup sheet was raw Xuan rice paper (very absorbent)
▪ remove the pickup sheet after a few seconds, to get all the details. Else it spreads and blurs.

/cc @nikkiana :-)
#gelliprint #gelliprinting #printmaking #monoprint #monoprinting #printmaking

There was something so yummy about this brown and bronze print over sheet music... Using thrifted books for paper is one of my favorite things.

#gelprinting #gelliprinting #gelprint

My first two pulls this morning were absolute disasters! Paint dried unevenly, paper split when I went to pull, and I was left pulling little papery bits off the plate.

This used to make me so mad when it would happen, and still can if I was too attached to the idea of the print I was about to pull. But more and more these days, a failed print is more like a happy accident.

The prints that rip straight off the plate are very often the first pieces to be pasted into collage pieces, and since they're from printer paper that split, they're so thin. It's perfect!

#gelliprinting #collage

A little abstract collage today to distract me from my injured finger.

#abstractart #collage #gelliprinting

I picked up these gesso board substrates at Goodwill today and I'm honestly not sure why I hadn't thought to try them before.

Gel printing directly onto a hard surface definitely acted different than paper, but I think I like it!

#gelliprinting #gelprint #abstractart

Today, I ended up picking up an empty box of seltzer and starting a work of art on the back of it.

I wonder where this one is going to go...

#gelprinting #gelliprinting #wip #abstractart

Sometimes a ghost print comes out so good that I'm like "Ugh! Why did I print that on copy paper!"

#gelprint #gelliprinting #abstractart

One of my tricks to keeping momentum after time away from the studio corner is not pulling my final gel print of the day until the next time I'm working on prints. I had this lovely iridescent purple grid waiting for me when I got back!

#gelliprinting #gelprint

I've been doing these splotchy colorful prints lately where I use a little too much paint so there's a fun ghost print to pull.

I never know how they're going to turn out, but so often they just turn out to be an absolute delight!

#abstractart #gelliprinting #gelprint

One of the things I love about the gel plate is how little time and effort it demands of me to make a single piece of interesting paper.

I'm still not entirely sure what to do with all of the paper that you get after doing this all day though. 🤣

#gelprint #gelliprinting #monoprint #abstractart

Sometimes I take a pull on average printer paper and wish I had grabbed a thicker gauge paper because this one came out sooooooo good.

#gelprint #gelliprinting #monoprint #abstractart

#FollowFriday ❤️

➡️ @jennylam - self-taught artist, curator, writer

➡️ @LewisHine - fan account for Lewis Hine (1874-1940), a photographer and sociologist known for his documentation of child labor in the early 20th century

➡️ @nikkiana - mixed media #artist with an interest in #collage and #gelliprinting

➡️ @Photochromprints - #historicalphotos of late 19th/early 20th century travel vistas in Europe and the Middle East

➡️ @StevenKennard - woodturning artist in Nova Scotia

#art #photography #artists #mastoart #woodworking

I picked up some cardstock from Goodwill yesterday for $2 and have been really pleased with the pulls I'm getting from it.

Curious to see how it holds up to multiple layers and collaging, but this one might be done as is.

#gelliprinting #gelliprint #monoprinting #abstractart #art