Gelli Plate Printing: Mixed-Media Monoprinting Without a Press

Description

Meet your dream plate and fall in love with a quicker, friendlier method to printmaking.

For artists and crafters who love the inventive probabilities of monoprinting on gelatin however no longer the prep time, mess and inconvenience that includes it, the Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate is a dream come actual! It is sturdy, reusable, saved at room temperature, and able to get inventive each time you’re. Merely practice paint with a comfortable rubber brayer, make your marks and pull your print. It is that straightforward! Wipe the plate down with a spritz of water and a paper towel, and you are ready to head once more.

In this most efficient information, artist Joan Bess–inventor of the concept that for the Gelli plate–unleashes the joys via greater than 60 Step by step tactics. Create fascinating styles the usage of gear like sponges, textured rollers and selfmade combs. Discover ways to include stencils and rubber stamps. Test with steel paint, dimensional paint and gel medium. Transform a texture-hunter, developing a large global of results the usage of embossed papers, herbal gadgets, rubber bands, lace, corrugated cardboard, steel tape, die minimize letters…the rest is going!

Even newcomers can revel in speedy gratification–simply snatch a textured floor, smoosh it into your painted Gelli plate, and you’ll be able to have a stack of wonderful prints very quickly. For knowledgeable printmakers, the inspirations in those pages will push you to Test, adapt, mix and layer. It is simple, amusing and utterly addicting!

Printmaking simply were given more straightforward!

   • Professional pointers from the writer of the Gelli plate
   • 60+ superior Step by step techniques
   • Concepts for incorporating stamps and stencils, the usage of ghost prints, salvaging uninspired prints, and more
   • 26-web page gallery displays the numerous glorious tactics artists are incorporating Gelli printing into their paintings
Uncover Blended-media monoprinting and not using a press!
This information is stuffed with printing Concepts and pointers the usage of Gelli Plates
Step by step directions for 50 tactics
Find out how other mediums reach attention-grabbing impacts
Through Joan Bess – co-founding father of Gelli Arts