A Beginner's Level Gel Press/Gelli Plate Printing Session! With Stamps, Stencils, Magazines & Plants 

Absolutely fascinating. I could see myself lost forever in a gelly printing era!

A lovely video Helen, very explanatory, fun and experimental!. When I see others doing gel printing online they don't always make clear about the drying times and how important that is in the layering process. I think you are now going to have to do a video on making your own stamps and stencils!! x

Looks like good old messy fun once you get your head around the order of things. They’ll look great as cards.

Helen, the first time commenting on your channel. I always enjoy watching. I can't claim to be an expert on Gel Printing but have been doing it a while. Perhaps put less paint on your plate, I think that would help. There are some great channels on You Tube that cover all aspects of Gel Printing. I hope you don't mind me mentioning as they may help. They are Susan McCreevy who I have just completed a 6 week course on Botanical Printing. Also another good one is Yates Makes he experiments with all types of media on the Gel Plate. Thank you again for all your great videos, it's great to watch your art journey 😊.

Wow this is great! You have some techniques I have never seen before and an impressive collection of homemade tools to get interesting effects. I am one of those people who bought a couple gelli plates (and brayers, and a baren) but have only ever tried them once. (I did print with some ferns and got some good results.) I know that, as you mentioned, some people are now using these with pastels, oil pastels, Inktense, etc.. Marsha Valk seems to be the original source of that, although it looks like she did a workshop with Emma Carlisle on Emma’s Patreon and now some other artists on RU-vid are taking those techniques and running with them, to great effect. I originally bought the plates early in the pandemic after watching the artist Jane Davies (not Jane Davenport) who is no longer very active making videos, but who made a lot in the early pandemic, and many more before that. She has some really interesting videos made 4-6 years ago with great techniques with the gelli plate, all abstract. I really want to try your techniques and the more “realistic” techniques I am seeing people using now. So much potential! I got so obsessed with the idea for awhile (despite not actually doing it…) that I bought all the ingredients and a special pan needed to make a much larger actual gelatin printing plate, but never followed up with that.

My favourite was the rosemary, think it’s good for use with watercolour too. Reminds me of collage! Thanks

Oh that looks like fun so I really do need to clear off my table top for this one, because I can see my daughter wanting to join me in doing this 😂

Thanks for this, it was really helpful. I still haven’t got my gelli plates out of the packaging. I’ll try this weekend ❤

Very interesting process which is very new to me. Thanks for sharing it. Definitely lots of potential and some really nice results for cards. I especially like the idea of using things like the Rosemary sprigs.

This looks soooo good 😊😊

This gives me confidence to just jump in and ‘make a mess!’ Thank you for sharing experiments. It really does make all of this accessible when you are trying something new.

That was fun! Now I’m off to shop for paints and gelli plate. Thanks for the inspiration Helen.

Thank you!

Merci beaucoup 😊🌸🌸🌸

I have a gelli plate, but can’t seem to find the time and space to make that much mess! It is fun to watch, thank you! I’m just glad I don’t have to do the clearing up as I’m the messiest person in the world! 😂

Been waiting for this!👏 TY!

I see what my problem was now. I used to always find my paper would rip when peeling it off. I wasn’t letting it dry long enough.

I bet this is a great video. I'm not watching though because if I buy any more art supplies I will qualify to appear on a reality show about hoarders 😂

Thanks Helen....I'm trying to create textural elements in my artwork with these. I'm a beginner and am finding very mixed results although i think that is a feature of the gelling plate in general. The stencils look interesting. Sometimes I use my sketchbook to roll off the excess paint too. As always..your videos are great viewing. Didn't the gold paint work beautifully.

If you’re not already following Yeates Makes on RU-vid, I highly recommended having a look at his videos. He takes Gelli plates to a whole different level!

Hi Helen, I have had a couple of goes on my gel plates and had some pretty awful failures, but also a few really nice prints. It’s not easy is it? Especially getting your head around reverse layering!😖😖🤔🙄😂 Good try though, I know I certainly need more practice, at least non of yours got stuck to the gel plate like some of mine. Any idea how to prevent that? Thankyou for sharing, very brave! Take care xx

Delinda here - how does this work - if layers dry in between, and you wait till it’s totally dry, how does the paint come off on the paper if it has dried on the jelly plate in layers?

So you used acrylics, POSCA markers and oil paints? Did you try watercolours?

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