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What inspired my play today? The song stuck in my head. All day I had been humming it and it wouldn’t go, so I decided to try to art it out! The Square in Square Impressable plate helped me get that song out of my head at long last!
What song was it? It wasn’t a Grammy winning song…it was the theme to the Brady Bunch. Who knows what will happen if I hear the theme to Gilligan’s Island…
The Impressable plate is about to be loaded up with the rainbow, and I’m going to be mingling all those colors together without making mud. What makes Impressable plates different than regular gel plates? They have a raised pattern on them.
The Impressable plate became the palette for me to grab bits of the pattern and color with the little square gel plate from Petite set A. Somehow by building the grid, like the one of the Brady Bunch family that played during the theme song, did the trick. At long last that song finally stopped playing in my head.
With all the paint on the Impressable plate, there were plenty of ghost prints to be made. That is one benefit of being heavy handed with the paints!
Such variety can be made from one plate, from just one application of paint. I have created my own coordinating set of papers to use in my play. Perhaps an art journal page, or a card, or a scrapbook page, a collage…or anything else that strikes my fancy!
The Gel Press plate grips the stencil, so that it doesn’t slip and move around. That grip also means paint is less likely to go under it.
Using a gel plate allows me to get the rainbow all around the Large Hall stencil quickly. The impatient parts of me absolutely love the immediate gratification.
Using the entire rainbow at once brings me joy. Especially when there is no mud and the so little clean up even using 5 colors!
By printing directly into my art journal, I had an almost complete art journal page in a snap. But that’s not all.
Not a drop of color or pattern is wasted when using a gel plate with a stencil. The remaining paint on the plate made a print. And so did the paint left on the stencil with the added bonus of a quick way to clean most of the paint off of the stencil.
My husband was so excited about gel printing after editing the welcome/getting started pages of my workshop, Gel Printing FUNdamentals that he WANTED to make a print. And he let me film it!
You’ll see him go from being very hesitant to far more confident, in just one print! If he can do it, you can do it. And you’ll also find out how he was busted for doing something I have long suspected!
Ready to start make prints you love even if you’ve never made a print? Check out Gel Printing FUNdamentals!
Dave knew how to pick out his paints and supplies based on what he saw in the pre workshop videos that are waiting as soon as you join the workshop, but I had to keep a close eye on him so he didn’t eat any just because of the name I call them…
He doesn’t have much experience with this art and play stuff but this is what he did after just the welcome videos. I can’t wait to see what he does after class starts!
Thanks to the FUNdamentals, he’ll understand how mud works (which would help him when he wants to mix purple and yellow), he’ll see techniques broken down into easy to understand steps so he can do way more than stripes, and so much more!
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Using the entire rainbow at once brings me joy. Especially when there is no mud and the so little clean up even using 5 colors!
