Envelopes made from recent gelatin plate prints.

Mailart gelliplate postcard. Late night creating.

More Gelli plate monoprints from early 2016.

Gelli monotype on paper

The botanicals/fish spines are made by rolling ink/paint on the plate, pressing the botanical or other

item onto the plate, and then lifting, then putting paper on the plate and pressing to transfer.

5 X 7 inches (printed area)

A Gelli plate is a commerically made gelatin-type plate for monoprint/monotyping that makes it very very easy to pull prints without a press. I got one in January of 2016 and had loads of fun playing with different techniques. You can google for more info on Gelli printing, this link looks pretty good: keetonsonline.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/all-about-gelli-pl...

Monoprint created on Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate with acrylic paint and masks on music paper with India ink highlights and stamped images.

Artwork measures 8 x 10.

Monoprint created on Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate with acrylic paint and masks on music paper with India ink highlights..

Artwork measures 8 x 10.

Some monoprints I pulled this weekend with the Gelli Plate. I'll be using them as backgrounds in my art journal.

Blogged about here:

www.gingerblue.com/gelli-plate-and-distress-stains/

Third batch, new colors. This is a YES.

Some monoprints I pulled this weekend with the Gelli Plate. I'll be using them as backgrounds in my art journal.

Blogged about here:

www.gingerblue.com/gelli-plate-and-distress-stains/

Gelli fun: acrylics on paper.

I just needed an evening of art last night. Took out the gelli plate and made 21 prints. Some are done. Some need work.

Yes it's an addiction, haha.

2013-09-10

Impressions made with a homemade round gelliplate and stencils.

Mixed Media Collage Postcards

Monoprint created on Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate with acrylic paint and masks on text paper with India ink highlights.

Artwork measures 6 x 6.

The ghost of the ginkgo.

Collage y medios mixtos. Papeles pintados y transferencia con gelli plate.

Collage and mixed media. Painted papers and transfer with gelli plate.

Mariana Fossatti, 2025.

Use of orange bag netting for texture on a gelli arts plate. Phthalo Green & Napthol Crimson Acrylics

Acrylic gel plate monotype.

I did some floral prints today on the gel plate. I gathered some plants and brought them into the house. To do a gel plate floral, you first ink up the plate with the colors you want, lay the plants on the plate, and make a print. This gives you a negative. You then take the plants off the plate and make another print to make a positive. I was surprised by how much detail showed up in the positives. Image is about 6x6 inches (15x15 cm).

Monoprint created on Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate with acrylic paint and masks on music paper with India ink highlights and stamped images.

Artwork measures 8 x 10.

This is the result of my hour-long Gelli plate printing session.

Skeleton leaves used on Gelli Arts Plate to create texture. Cadmium Orange Acrylic.

Gel plate acrylic monotype.

Today I tried making marks with my fingernail and a metal stick in a rolled out slab of Play Doh and using it as a stamp on a gel plate. It is an alternative to using modeling clay which is a bit stiffer. The top image shows what happens when you use the stamp to remove paint from the plate by stamping into a layer of wet paint and the bottom image shows what happens if you paint the surface of the stamp and then stamp it onto the blank plate. After my samples dried, I painted over them with orange paint. After that dried, I brushed on clear fluid medium, put my paper down, weighted it with books, and let it dry for 30 minutes before pulling the print. This works really well to pull all the paint off the gel plate. Both of these are really small 2.25x1.5 inches (5.7x3.8 cm).

The point of an experiment is not to be successful but to find out about a process.

This weekend I pulled out the Gelli Plate again and did some more art journal backgrounds and prints. Blogged here:

www.gingerblue.com/?p=3242

These ATC-sized (2.5" x 3.5") inspiration cards were made by me for a series of swaps on swapbot. The first photo is the front of the card, the second is the back. I've been really enjoying creating these miniature pieces of art.

Gelli print, rubber stamps, glitter, Ranger Glossy Accents, Prismacolor pencils/odorless mineral spirits, Smooches gold ink, embossing powder.

A second run of 8 prints for Carla Sonheim's monotype class. This is the first day's layers.

ATCs made with gelli plate

gelli plate print.

Envelopes made from recent gelatin plate prints.

Gelli plate experiment

Gelliplate print postcard.

Gelliplate monoprint

These ATC-sized (2.5" x 3.5") inspiration cards were made by me for a series of swaps on swapbot. The first photo is the front of the card, the second is the back. I've been really enjoying creating these miniature pieces of art.

Gelli print, rubber stamps, ink, embossing powder, ledger paper.

Another small journal covered with gelliplate printed papers and washi tape. This one will go in my mtn. dulcimer bag.

Best of 'day 2'. Just a few colors added, the squares in the soft pink I made with square wooden beads.

Tweede printfase. Eén van de beste prints.

created with Gelli Plate & acrylic paints

Daniels turn at the Gelli Plate ... love these leaves!

We had fun today watching a video by Lucy Brydon, Gelli Printing with pressed plants and feathers www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9I-Eit8fH0&feature=share

Then. we got out the gelli-plate and played.

Acrylic gel plate monotype.

I’m testing a variety of ways to create texture and variation by scraping back layers and blotting with crumpled up wax paper. I painted layers on the plate using opaque acrylic texturing the colors while they were still wet, letting the layer dry, and then painting the next layer working my way back from the foreground to the background, brown first, then green, then orange, and finally the blue and white sky. After the last layer dried, I brushed on some Golden GAC 100 clear, glossy acrylic primer and extender, put the paper down, weighted it with books and let it dry for 30 minutes and pulled the print. Image is about 6x4.5 inches (15.2x11.5 cm).

Sharpie drawing over failed acrylic paint gelli plate monotype

From life/observation/mirror

~5 X 7 inches

A second run of 8 prints for Carla Sonheim's monotype class. This is the first day's layers.

Drawing made after i saw little birds on this monoprint made with a Gelli plate.

Using Dina Wakely acrylic paints, white cardstock, hand cut stencils and masks. With six completed sheets, front and back, I cut the sheets in half, folded and sewed in drawing paper to create small notebooks.