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  • 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…

  • From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer

    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…

  • More Gel Plate Inkjet Image Transfers

    More Gel Plate Inkjet Image Transfers

    I carried on with this experiment today, and pulled the inkjet image transfer of my drawing onto some gel prints. I think the process is going to do what I want it to do, but still some testing to do, so these will have to hang to dry for a few days before I can…

  • Inkjet Image Transfers on the Gel Plate SUCCESS

    Inkjet Image Transfers on the Gel Plate SUCCESS

    While I am leaving the inkjet prints on various papers to dry for a few days, I decided to revisit another experiment I first wanted to try a few years ago. I can tell you it was a few years ago because I looked up the date I bought the freezer paper on the big…

  • Painting Tools and Collage Fodder

    Painting Tools and Collage Fodder

    I ended up with only a short amount of time for art today, and I decided I wanted to give my portrait a rest, and have some space from it, before going in to hopefully finish. Instead I did some simple play in my old sketchbook, not really trying to create anything, just moving paint…

  • Daisy Pulls

    Daisy Pulls

    It is a windy day today, and after walking a few miles in the wind, I was not enthralled with being in my studio room listening to the wind, which seems to be very loud in that room, and painting. I did spend some time in there, tho, doing a quick gel printing session. I…

  • Art Exhibition and Collage Fodder

    Art Exhibition and Collage Fodder

    I have had a great day today. I decided to use up the paint in the stay-wet palette leftover from my recent mixing exercise to make collage fodder. I pulled out a couple of small gel plates and got stuck in. I have to say it was the most fun because I finally have enough…