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It’s day 4 of the party! So glad you are here! I’ve been asked what kind of paper I use and it is whatever I have. In these videos it has been cheap cards stock from the office supply store. I will use old book pages,scrapbook paper, deli paper, really anything! The paints I use are Amsterdam – they are affordable, come in colors in I like, and stay wet for me on the Gelli Plate better than several other brands I tried.
In the video I create 3 canvases at once. I use more paint on the Gelli Plate when I am using canvas or fabrics compared to paper. Here is how each canvas progressed. I am putting all 3 of them on the blog as proof that is doesn’t always go the way I’d like. There is one I am very happy with, one that is okay, and one that needs a lot more layers for me to like it at all (but I am not tell which is which)!
Here’s the middle canvas in progress. I collaged on various Gelli print papers and added paint. I have a couple of ideas for this but we’ll see which one my muse likes the best…
There are stencils from Crafters Workshop, Artist Cellar, Stencil Girl and Prima used on these canvases.
Have you had a chance to check out all the great Gelli-ness that has linked up? I am blown away by all the creativity! There is still time for you to link up your prints and join the party!
Link up your Gelli Plate blog posts, flickr page, YouTube videos – it is all welcome! New posts or recent posts are welcome!
Add a link back to the party so others can join us too!
Leave a comment on at least 2 other links from the party. You know how wonderful kind comments encourage us creative types!
Participate as many times as you want- just be sure it relates to the Gelli Plate. If you notice your link deleted it is because it didn’t have a thing to do with the Gelli plate and that is what we’re celebrating here!
Romance was in the air as I made this journal page! You weren’t expecting romance at A Colorful Gelli Print Party were you…well neither was I! I just kept staring and staring at these blues – I do love blues. This is just experimenting around with lines of colors in misc. ribbons and papers around the studio. I never know where a Gelli print will take me!
The great part about mixing right on the Gelli Plate is that you get wonderfully subtle variations. This video shows you 2 ways that I mix colors. First by brayering on 1 color completely and adding another color. Second by just squirting the 2 colors out at the same time. How much I brayer them has a big impact on how the prints turn out.
The first print after adding paint to the Gelli Plate is very solid and relatively plain looking. These types of papers have been coming in very handy when I needed a piece of colored card stock for an art journal spread.
They are relatively plain but have just a hint of painterly-ness to them.
When I mixed the paint on this one I only did a little blending so the green pops a bit more. Every time I look at this all I can see are lily pads! I think I need a frog here…
The more paint that gets removed from the Gelli Plate the more interesting the prints become.
The layering of colors
I love the size of the 12×14 Gelli Plate because it is bigger than my paper. Why is that a big deal to me? As I pull prints off I am creating variation because only part of the paint is removed from the plate.
I wish I could tell you I planned this all out before I started printing but the truth is there is very little planning…
It is mostly about playing!
So now it is your turn to share any of your Gelli creations from prints to finished projects!
Link up your Gelli Plate blog posts, flickr page, YouTube videos – it is all welcome! New posts or recent posts are welcome!
Add a link back to the party so others can join us too!
Leave a comment on at least 2 other links from the party. You know how wonderful kind comments encourage us creative types!
Participate as many times as you want- just be sure it relates to the Gelli Plate. If you notice your link deleted it is because it didn’t have a thing to do with the Gelli plate and that is what we’re celebrating here!
Welcome to day 2 of A Colorful Gelli Print Party! My family has come to accept the fact that I have abandoned them for the Gelli Plate this week. Truthfully, the teenagers are not too upset to be left alone and I wasn’t really going to do much housework this week anyway…
When you push your paper onto the Gelli Plate you don’t have to push the entire paper down. You can be very selective! On some prints I will only press half the paper down or just a bit of the edge depending on where I want the color to go.
I keep my in progress prints near by. I will pull as much paint off the Gelli Plate as possible with ghost print after ghost print. I often have no idea how they will be used but I keep a stack in arms reach! In this video you will see me use several of these prints as I use Donna Downey’s potholes stencil and Michelle Ward’s Marrakesh stencil .
The pink was a ghost print from another day. I only pressed part of the paper into the pink. Yellow was added to the entire page.
On the right, orange was added to the entire page.
Same color order as the paper above but this time I only pressed part of the paper into the orange.
Save your uglies! The yellow and black layers really did not look good to me so I added the orange on top and suddenly, I like it! You never know what will happen with the Gelli plate…This print is not finished but I am beginning to like it!
This was a plain piece of card stock just sitting on my counter. It was within my arms reach so I nabbed it for using up paint. Now it is calling to me to become part of an art journal!
Here’s the journal page!
So now it is your turn to share any of your Gelli creations from prints to finished projects!
Link up your Gelli Plate blog posts, flickr page, YouTube videos – it is all welcome! New posts or recent posts are welcome!
Add a link back to the party so others can join us too!
Leave a comment on at least 2 other links from the party. You know how wonderful kind comments encourage us creative types!
Participate as many times as you want- just be sure it relates to the Gelli Plate. If you notice your link deleted it is because it didn’t have a thing to do with the Gelli plate and that is what we’re celebrating here!
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– they are affordable, come in colors in I like, and stay wet for me on the Gelli Plate
