Just found your video. Fortuitously as today I started using my golden opens. I did not buy them for Gelli printing but for regular painting, but my cat dictates I cannot easily have wet paintings of any reasonable size, so the got put away for a few years. They are all in perfect condition and the difference between using them and cheap student type acrylic is lik chalk and cheese. I do feel I have options now! A few colours seem to take extra time to dry. I noticed instantly I need a good green, also how little paint I am using, though I think that might increase with a more thirsty paper, for now I have been using layout paper which seems to be okay for learning, but hoping to progress to something better. The colours are absolutely gorgeous, mine are all transparent with the exception of Tit. Buff. The Indian yellow hue is gorgeous as is the manganese blue. I am hoping to try watercolours too. Thanks for a really informative video, your open prints are really lovely too.
Wow thanks for sharing this very creative fun project, i'm excited to try this, so what size do you cut the shrink plastic in, i'm guessing about 7"X 5" & are those see-thru square plates, that you do your work on both glass or is the smaller one made of plastic or does it really matter, what i use for this area, please would someone respond, thanks a bunch.
Thank you for this informative video! I've been using craft paints mostly and some fabric paints, but have not tried the open acrylics. I have one tube of Open white, that I have used to mix in with my other regular Golden acrylics to extend the drying time and I have extender; both have been a bit of a pain to use and you have to be sure to mix them well before use. My husband will not be happy about this, but I am going to go ahead and start investing in some open acrylic colours! lol Bottom line is that I love the effect that they produce in comparison to the regular acrylic and craft paints.. Question; can you use open acrylics on fabric or are there any extra steps needed to take to make them washable?
Hi there! Thanks for this video. How about the smell. Do those inks have a strong smell? I'm currently working with akua inks, they don't smell but I always end up with headaches when I use them; so I'm looking for some other water washable ink.
Lucy you missed the end of the birds beak, it’s going to loose it’s berry 🙁. I loved watching you paint this picture though. I subscribed to you after watching ‘1 Scot 1 not’ which I love watching, I’ve had to start in the beginning and I’m halfway through, they are so interesting. I’m going to look through your channels tomoz. Thank you for teaching me new stuff xx
As an art group we’ve bought the Caligo inks and a gelli plate each. I normally work on a press producing monoprints using Hawthorne inks. They have a product that allows you to make the ink more transparent. Caligo similarly produce an extender - would we need this or are their inks generally more transparent anyway ? Thanks in anticipation 🙏
Thank you for the demonstration how to use Caligo Safe Wash in this and the previous video. It helps a lot. Is there a possibility that you might show how to do reduction prints with linoleum? Just bought the ink for this purpose. Thank you in advance for some advise.
I'm very new to gel printing. So far, I'm mostly working with inks. I haven't had great success with acrylics yet, so this is helpful. I want to pull prints of some old black and white photos that I was going to have copies made of on a laser printer. Have you tried this at all? I have tried pulling a print of a magazine page, but that hasn't worked yet for me. I have seen it done successfully.
I have tended to stay away from the laser printer technique as it was a copyright issue for me I dont want my images to just be copies from magazines but go for it! it looks fun!
