Category: Monoprinting
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Not The Same Again
Following on from yesterday’s experiment, I have been experimenting further with the basic idea, and different ways of achieving the result. I used pan pastels on this one, which loses some of the transparency, so I am not convinced. You have to be careful when you are harvesting a few leaves for the gel plate,…
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Gardening, kind of.
I’m loving what I achieved in my studio yesterday. I walked into the room this morning and was immediately inspired by the sense of having more space. I went out in the garden today and selected some leaves from what some people might consider weeds, but I consider garden friends, and used them to make…
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Gel Print Texture
A parade of gel prints today, all of which are making me happy. I have been very good today and actually used some of my handmade collage fodder for a textured background. I have been making a lot of collage fodder, then just admiring it but not using it, so it felt good to stick…
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Scrape Away
Some of my favourite gel prints from recent sessions using my gel plates to make collage fodder. Yes, they’re unceremoniously watermarked. I’m trying to find a way to make peace with the mass scraping and downloading of my art going on, but it just feels really fucking shitty. Painting was done today, for the streak…
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Gel Plate Joy
I added another canvas to my pile today, and I put in an order for another thirty little canvases, so the 100 Day Project continues. I wanted to share this magical pull from my Gelelf gel plate, tho, because I’m completely obsessed with it. This is just a corner of the print, which is much…
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Big Gel Joy
It’s Day 27 of the 100 Day Project, and I have 29 mini canvases with paint on. Today I pulled this one from the pile to bring it on a bit from the very scratchy sketch that was there. I started building the values and it’s looking a lot better than it was. I’ve also…
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Testing Ideas
An experiment in progress, that may look like a failure, but I haven’t finished, yet, so we’ll see. I’m enamoured with the image transfer process of charcoal and pastel drawings using a gel plate, so I have tried it out with pan pastels. These adhere to the paper in a different way to soft pastels…
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Gel Plate and Conté Pencils
Today’s 100 Day Project mini canvas has gone on a wee side quest. It occurred to me that I have a gel plate the same size as the canvas boards, and the combination is turning out to be a boat floater. I love using gesso and mediums with charcoal and pastels, not least because the…
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Tiny Landscapes
Yesterday a 2″ circle punch arrived. I was totally confused. Apparently I ordered it in January, and I had completely forgotten about it. It’s now back in stock, apparently. I had been using one of my gel plates as a palette, so I pulled what was on there, and it wasn’t exactly inspiring. The surprise…
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Gel Printing on Fabric Tips
Sheelagh asked in the comments about gel printing on fabric, and there are various ways to do it, there are probably more ways to do it than I have listed here, such is the versatility and beauty of gel printing. First, it depends on what you want to do with the fabric you are printing…
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From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer
I had a little tidying and organising session today. I gathered together a bunch of things that I had stored in several different places and sorted them into groups of similar things. They are all things I have collected to use on the gel plates, but I never pull them out because they are in…
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Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers
I have been testing an inkjet image of this drawing which was printed on copy paper the same day I made prints using all the different papers. The test is simply spraying a small section of the print with water, and seeing what happens. The first test was the day the print was made, and…
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