A Beginner's Level Gel Press/Gelli Plate Printing Session! With Stamps, Stencils, Magazines & Plants
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- A very experimental, messy gel plate printing session, where I have a good play, and try to learn more about it.
Using the gel plate for stamping:
• Mixed-Media Fun! With ...
A4 Gel Printing Plate:
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5"x7" Gel Printing Plate:
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3"X5" Gel Printing Plate:
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Amsterdam Standard Acrylic Paint Set 36 x 20ml
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Pebeo Gel Matt Medium:
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The Silver Leaf I used:
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Marianne Design Stencil, Foam:
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Black 17mm Posca Pen:
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The dots and stripe stencils are old ones from Stampin' Up.
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A lovely video Helen, very explanatory, fun and experimental!. When I see others doing gel printing online they don't always make clear about the drying times and how important that is in the layering process. I think you are now going to have to do a video on making your own stamps and stencils!! x
Thanks ever so much!
This looks soooo good 😊😊
Looks like good old messy fun once you get your head around the order of things. They’ll look great as cards.
Definitely a lot of mess, definitely a lot of fun!
Absolutely fascinating. I could see myself lost forever in a gelly printing era!
Haha! It's definitely a lot of fun, even when my results are questionable!!
Helen, the first time commenting on your channel. I always enjoy watching. I can't claim to be an expert on Gel Printing but have been doing it a while. Perhaps put less paint on your plate, I think that would help. There are some great channels on You Tube that cover all aspects of Gel Printing. I hope you don't mind me mentioning as they may help. They are Susan McCreevy who I have just completed a 6 week course on Botanical Printing. Also another good one is Yates Makes he experiments with all types of media on the Gel Plate. Thank you again for all your great videos, it's great to watch your art journey 😊.
Hello! Thank you! This is great - thanks for pointing us in the right direction!
Very interesting process which is very new to me. Thanks for sharing it. Definitely lots of potential and some really nice results for cards. I especially like the idea of using things like the Rosemary sprigs.
Thanks! There are plenty of good videos on CZcams I think that explain all sorts of different aspects of gel plate printing well, if you're interested.
Wow this is great! You have some techniques I have never seen before and an impressive collection of homemade tools to get interesting effects. I am one of those people who bought a couple gelli plates (and brayers, and a baren) but have only ever tried them once. (I did print with some ferns and got some good results.) I know that, as you mentioned, some people are now using these with pastels, oil pastels, Inktense, etc.. Marsha Valk seems to be the original source of that, although it looks like she did a workshop with Emma Carlisle on Emma’s Patreon and now some other artists on CZcams are taking those techniques and running with them, to great effect. I originally bought the plates early in the pandemic after watching the artist Jane Davies (not Jane Davenport) who is no longer very active making videos, but who made a lot in the early pandemic, and many more before that. She has some really interesting videos made 4-6 years ago with great techniques with the gelli plate, all abstract. I really want to try your techniques and the more “realistic” techniques I am seeing people using now. So much potential! I got so obsessed with the idea for awhile (despite not actually doing it…) that I bought all the ingredients and a special pan needed to make a much larger actual gelatin printing plate, but never followed up with that.
I think I'm like you - I like buying things for ideas I get wildly enthusiastic about, then don't always follow through! I made all the stamps and masks etc, during one session ages ago, and have barely used them since. Thanks for all the resources. I follow a couple of people on Instagram who do some gel plate printing (though they seem to stick down the paper on one side, and do repeat impressions over the same spot)
I've yet to do a deep dive on CZcams on it!
Oh that looks like fun so I really do need to clear off my table top for this one, because I can see my daughter wanting to join me in doing this 😂
Yes - it takes up loads of space, and I make an enormous mess, but worth it in fun!
My favourite was the rosemary, think it’s good for use with watercolour too. Reminds me of collage! Thanks
This gives me confidence to just jump in and ‘make a mess!’ Thank you for sharing experiments. It really does make all of this accessible when you are trying something new.
I'm really glad! I can be relied on to make a mess!
Thanks for this, it was really helpful. I still haven’t got my gelli plates out of the packaging. I’ll try this weekend ❤
Hope you have fun with them!
I see what my problem was now. I used to always find my paper would rip when peeling it off. I wasn’t letting it dry long enough.
I have a gelli plate, but can’t seem to find the time and space to make that much mess! It is fun to watch, thank you! I’m just glad I don’t have to do the clearing up as I’m the messiest person in the world! 😂
No question, my whole dining room looked trashed afterwards!! It's probably why I don't get round to gel plate printing as much as I'd like!
That was fun! Now I’m off to shop for paints and gelli plate. Thanks for the inspiration Helen.
There are loads of much better videos than mine around, so I'm sure you can pick up lots more cool ideas too!
I bet this is a great video. I'm not watching though because if I buy any more art supplies I will qualify to appear on a reality show about hoarders 😂
😂 Made me laugh so much! Don't worry - you didn't miss much - not my finest creations!
Been waiting for this!👏 TY!
It's not very good I'm afraid!!
You already know how to make beautiful art, Helen! This was about experimenting. I made gel press plates last week and haven’t had time to play. This was great way to get me started. TY again😁
Ah, thanks! I'm glad - have fun!!
If you’re not already following Yeates Makes on CZcams, I highly recommended having a look at his videos. He takes Gelli plates to a whole different level!
Thank you!
Thanks Helen....I'm trying to create textural elements in my artwork with these. I'm a beginner and am finding very mixed results although i think that is a feature of the gelling plate in general. The stencils look interesting. Sometimes I use my sketchbook to roll off the excess paint too. As always..your videos are great viewing. Didn't the gold paint work beautifully.
I think they could be so useful once we've got the hang of them more! I need to do that with the roller too - I noticed that my scrap paper often looked better than the thing I was working on!
@helencryer yes...I have roller regret at times. 😆
I wondered whether to draw the foreground..mask it off and apply the plate to get a background print (probs better with the second "ghost"). I'm thinking city skylines or foresty shapes. Mmm more research required
I was kind of experimenting with the masking technique in this video - definitely worth playing with more!
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Hi Helen, I have had a couple of goes on my gel plates and had some pretty awful failures, but also a few really nice prints. It’s not easy is it? Especially getting your head around reverse layering!😖😖🤔🙄😂 Good try though, I know I certainly need more practice, at least non of yours got stuck to the gel plate like some of mine. Any idea how to prevent that? Thankyou for sharing, very brave! Take care xx
It feels like it should be easy, but I'm definitely not creating the kind of things I'd like to yet! Thanks! I've not had any trouble with mine getting stuck - what kind of paint are you using? Or are the papers dry enough?
@@helencryer I’m using the Arteza acrylics in the bottles, I have some acrylics of various brands in tubes, maybe I’ll try them. The bottle ones only stick to the plate on thinner copier paper, they’re fine on heavy paper, like scrap book paper which I think is about 200g. I’m giving them another try in the week so I’ll use the tubes and leave them to dry longer, trial and error really isn’t it?but good fun all the same! Thanks for the tip, I’ll let you know how it goes!🙄🙄🥰🥰🥰
Good luck!
Delinda here - how does this work - if layers dry in between, and you wait till it’s totally dry, how does the paint come off on the paper if it has dried on the jelly plate in layers?
You always put the paper onto a wet last layer, and let that fully dry before taking off the gel plate. It's the in-between paint layers that you have to let fully dry.
So you used acrylics, POSCA markers and oil paints? Did you try watercolours?
Yes, well oil pastels. Didn't try watercolour. I'm sure you'd get some interesting very puddly effects, but they wouldn't stick to the plates, or dry in the way the acrylics do.
@@helencryer Thanks for the insight.
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Hi! Feeling less magnanimous about 'first' today?!
@@helencryer yup 😁