I've come to think of my gel plate as a living thing that needs to be fed (baby oil) from time-to-time. I want to keep it happy. Thanks for showing us your process and discoveries. I love your prints.
Great fun! As I watched the thought came- maybe I wouldn't need stencils with the oil resist. Maybe I could just "paint" on all kinds of shapes with the oil mixture as tho they were my stencils... so many possibilities... Watching your videos, I've become obsessed with Gelli printing. Eat, sleep and dream Gelli printing. 😂🙏
Wow! This is an amazing technique! thank you for demonstrating your experiment! You mentioned any oil marks will evaporate and dry out, which ... also blows my mind! So the only question I have left is whether the oil resist on the plate will remain for the next few pulls. WHERE is my second THUMBS UP, RU-vid? He needs that here!
Hi Nanakinsz its hard to say if the remaining oil will be as effective in successive pulls as most of it gets absorbed either by the plate and the paper. I don't recommend piling on the vaseline/baby oil mix, a thin layer will do. Which means you have to experiment more!
Beautiful ! Your videos are an inspiration to a gel-plate beginner like me and I am so grateful for the way you share your creativity, experiments and experience and are so generous with your demonstrations in 'real time'. Thank you.
Pretty cool. It's a nice change not to struggle with paper. Now you have used so many fresh, clean colours I fantasize about a murky light grey type of purple, probably based on a mix of Naples yellow, white, a dash of deep purple and a hint of blue. I guess there is nothing out of a tube like that and space is needed for pre mixing. Forgive me, Fulton. Part of the satisfaction in watching is the imagination takes off and creates its own mind pictures.
These resists are great! I have tried Vaseline and didn't like the result. I tried mineral oil and didn't like the result. Even though I had the 2 side by side on my table for months, I never thought to mix them! Thanks, as always, for sharing. You are always an inspiration! ❤
Hi, really nice print! I have a question relating to the "fat over lean" rule, which of course is that you can paint oils over acrylics but not the other way around, because the oil will eventually repel the acrylic (as I sadly discovered once when painting kitchen cabinets and found that within a month the acrylic paint peeled off). I'm interested in your thoughts about this. You say that the mineral oil/petroleum jelly eventually dries, just like oil paint does, but I wonder if the layers of acrylic paint that overlap with the oil/jelly residue on the paper could be unstable. Thanks for your thoughts.
Hi Mary, your question made me smile because I am a professional furniture restorer. Your unfortunate experience with kitchen cabinets should not prevent you from the joy of discovery in art making. The acrylic paint on paper will be just fine and look lovely for years to come. And by the way, next time you decide to paint kitchen cabinets you must first clean and sand the surfaces thoroughly with 120 grit sand paper, use a good primer, like Benjamin Moore Fresh Start, and then follow with an latex enamel specifically meant for cabinets, I love Benjamin Moore Satin Impervo. It is water based but performs like a good oil based paint. Fat over lean rule is a myth! Thanks so much for watching!
