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Tag: gel printing

  • Not The Same Again

    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,…

  • Act on Ideas

    Act on Ideas

    One thing leads to another, as always, and yesterdays foraging in the jungle of my garden, which led to some gel prints recording my favourite leaves, led to more foraging and more gel printing, which led to this idea that I’m experimenting with in my sketchbook. It’s rough, and needs tweaking, refining, and a change…

  • Gardening, kind of.

    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…

  • Gel Print Texture

    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…

  • Friday Four

    Friday Four

    The figure painting top left is on an 8×8″ canvas, and is a work-in-progress. The other three images are 12×14″ gel prints. I am still being scraped on here, so I am changing the way I share images just now. I don’t think I should have to, but sharing freely on here shouldn’t mean my…

  • Scrape Away

    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…

  • Gel Plate Joy

    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…

  • Testing Ideas

    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…

  • Gel Plate and Conté Pencils

    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…

  • Painting Elphin

    Painting Elphin

    Sketchbook painting using one of my photos of Elphin the taxidermy badger that I took at the wee sketching group event a few weeks ago. I’m playing with colour, and using turquoise as the almost mother colour because, like the badger, I am a creature of habit. I was using one of my gel plates…

  • Gel Printing on Fabric Tips

    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…

  • Gel Prints on Denim

    Gel Prints on Denim

    I’m going through the Decisions Stage of my painting, so I didn’t some swatching and will do more tomorrow. The rest of my time was spent sorting my fabric stash, and doing a very basic inventory in my notes app. I have some ideas bubbling away, and so I wanted to reacquaint myself with what…