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Tag: gel printing

  • Mini Monoprints

    Mini Monoprints

    I’m using a little 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbook with my 2×3″ gel plate. (yes, I’m bilingual as far as measurements go, never going to change). It started out as a project in the Things To Do When Creativity Seems Blocked – one of several tricks that I try to remember as good ways to get…

  • Comfort Zone

    Comfort Zone

    Having a weird migraine day, but managed to motivate myself to do a portrait sketch in my A4 sketchbook. I used my caput mortuum acrylic mix, one of my scratchy brushes, and the background is a gel print using cadmium red light. Til the morn, Suzanne 236/300

  • Aye Aye

    Aye Aye

    I was going to call this blog ‘ebb and flow’ but I can’t resist a pun. A few days of semi-frustrating ebb with higher resistance seems to have shifted into a much more satisfying and productive flow. This is how it happens, as I keep learning throughout this daily challenge. I started out with my…

  • New Sketchbook Project

    New Sketchbook Project

    I didn’t have much time today as we went for a seven mile walk, which was beautiful and autumnal. I got another of the wee 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbooks specifically to use with my 3×5″ gel plate. Yes, one of those measurements is imperial and one is decimal and that’s how I roll. I used…

  • Pulling

    Pulling

    Today I got a wee parcel with two gel plates from a brand I haven’t tried before, so that was a nice way to get back into the studio and mess about with paints. I’ll have to give them a few sessions before I can decide whether they are like for like, or an improvement,…

  • New Art Materials and Hares

    New Art Materials and Hares

    Late last night I had an idea which I immediately acted upon. I used my phone to resize one of my large hare wips and printed it, then using charcoal I made a transfer for my gel plate. I transferred it onto a small card, and I will see where it goes from there. It’s…

  • Six In One

    Six In One

    Yesterday I used a background that had been done quite a while back as the substrate from my painting. Late in the evening I pulled a few more bits and pieces from my rack of part-done work to see if anything else called to me to be finished. One of things I pulled out was…

  • I’ve Pulled

    I’ve Pulled

    The satisfaction to be had slowly pulling a gel print that has been left overnight is so good. This was all pulled as one, so lots of waiting for layers to dry in between. It just needs a little tweak on one eye, and it’s good to go. Til the morn, Suzanne 183/200

  • On The Gel Plate

    On The Gel Plate

    Playing with charcoal transfers of the weird face I made the other day. This one is still on the gel plate with the layer drying before I try pulling it. Til the morn, Suzanne 182/200

  • Gel Plate Painting

    Gel Plate Painting

    I don’t really have much to say today, other than someone has treated me very poorly, and I am quite upset about it. I had absolutely zero appetite for painting, but I managed to do a gel plate pull into my sketchbook. It’s a technique I have tried before, and it really needs a longer…

  • Sketch Gel Plate Transfer

    Sketch Gel Plate Transfer

    Today was a play day which involved lots of little creative bits and pieces getting done in five different sketchbooks and journals. I had a lot of fun chilling and pulling out random materials with no focus on a finished Thing, just play. I have this old, old A4 spiral sketchbook that I really want…

  • Printing Paraphernalia

    Printing Paraphernalia

    100 Day Project Day 78 My mixed media girl is drowning in layers today, which is lots of fun, but she’s currently in a soggy almost out of ugly stage, and every photo I try to take has weird glare, so there’s no photo update on her. I got one of my gel plates out…