Leaf Prints~Gelli Plate~4 Techniques~Full Tutorial~Soul of an Artist Excavation~Dig #34 

I too think of artwork as therapy. I also believe it is a form of meditation. I started painting when my mother passed away as an outlet for my grief. Since then it is turned into a passion. And I am looking forward to getting back to it and working with my breath and soothing music as I do so. It is a deep form of personal therapy for me.

Thank you Korey, that was just fabulous 😊

Pull the ones that leave blank spaces on paper that already has a geometric print on it. Especially when you’re working with dark colours, you’ll have the geometric bits showing through. It could even be a floral print, polka dots, whatever you want to have fill in the white leaves

Excellent tutorial, thank you.

Absolutely beautiful prints and tutorial! Thank you for your generous and truly inspirational. sharing.

You can also use matt gel medium if you want to pull something that has dried without adding a colour.

It isn’t my personal style, however, I suppose you could doodle into the blank white spaces where the leaves once were. If I saw the right doodle I would know. But as a person without doodling talent I would just put some other layer over it for texture. But that’s just me. You do you! Art is subjective. Peace to you.

Ink pen doodling in the spaces the leaves make on the first pull looks amazing.

Yes, sometimes the can wait!!beautiful prints!!💕

Please do one about fabric...and put "fabric" in the title so we can find it! Thanks...love all your videos!

Just lovely 🙏

Thanks as always for sharing your techniques Kory ❤ I'm with you in closing the door, leaving the world behind and being in a place of freedom and sanity when we make art :)

Those are all stunning

I love the leaves prints, I think it is fun. I enjoyed it. Thanks.

Absolutely stunning prints!!! (:

I loved seeing all the variations and how you work through using and reusing all the leaves. Great session!

Beautiful. I can't wait to try this out with lots of different leaves!

Thank you! This is very helpful.

Fun video! I love leaf printing. I'm planning on going out this week to collect leaves for the winter. I'm in the Smoky Mountains so I want to get some of them early enough to have a wide variety of choices. WELL DONE, Kory!

I did enjoy this 🌹

I love Autumn so much! This was a beautiful lesson in leaf printing on the Gelli plate. I will watch this over and over while printing. Sorry, that you are going through some tough times. You are so artistic and lovely!

Oh my goodness so many inspirational ideas thanks for sharing 🎨👩🏼‍🎨🍁🍂

Hi Kory, I just discovered your channel. I really enjoyed your company and lovely, cute/funny chit chat. Such a pleasure to listen to especially when I want to shut out the rest of the world!!😁😂 Art is definitely the best "therapy" and I'd much rather watch fellow artists create than the rubbish on television! thank you so much for sharing!! 🙏😇 kind regards, Mary from Australia 🤗

Those prints with the white inside leaf, I would do mandala type or doodling type art to fill in the blank and perhaps then add texture to the brown part... Not sure I am explaining it well 😂 but it's very clear in me head! This video was very interesting! Thank you for sharing 🙏🧡

Awesome work, I am going out to pick leaves and get busy printing. Thanks so much.

Good video! The prints with the white silhouettes would make great journal pages -- write in the white space.

Love it all! Especially love the tool, I made it and was so much cheaper than buying a baron and works great!!Thank you!

Thanks so much, Kory for these techniques. Before Gelli plates, I used mono prints with glass. Gelli plates are great although I haven’t used mine too much. This is inspiring me.

Very pretty. Like your tips. The small brayer around the edge of the plate is a great idea. Also, the coffee sprayer. I'm in the desert so paint drys super fast. I use extenders to keep it wet longer. ❤

An idea for the first leaf paper pull. Maybe create a heavily patterned or multi colored paint pattern that is somewhat transparent and use it over the bright white leaves. Maybe mixing in metallics. Stencils or even more leaf patterns maybe.

From one Kori to another, thank you! Going through a hard time and turning to art like you :)

😊Without 5aping the paper, you could lift half of the paper, remive leaves, place down to line up positive and negative images. Repeat on other half. I use 1/4" fun foam under rubber stamps. I keep a dollar store kitty litter pan with water and Murphys Oil Soap in it. I toss stencils, brayers, stamps, even gelbplates in for easy clean up later. Botanicals are my favorite use of my gelbplate. To fill in negative leaf shapes, i line to print a layer with strings and yarns and eyelash yarn. Good info on Titanium white binding too strongly with rice and printer paper. 8 do like the way ir pulls on cardstock abd Bristol paper. Great tutorial!

I would use the prints with negative space for a journal ! I would stamp some script in those spaces.

Around 43:45 you ask about ideas for negative space prints. I think since this particular print you are holding is landscape it would work really well folded in half, used as a junk journal page and journaling would be beautiful in the negative space.

Kory, I just came across your tutorial & am I ever glad I did. I'm starting out trying to use my geli plate but I'm not "artistic" & have been struggling to be satisfied with the results. I gather one reason may be that I'm using acrylic paint from the Dollar store as I didn't want to spend a lot of money on better quality paint until I knew if I'd enjoy it or not. You give such concise instructions & you speak slowly & clearly & I appreciate that. I am going to check out a couple more of your videos. It's Jan/24 now so it's too late for me to go out & collect leaves right now as evergreens are all that's available. I'm going to bookmark this & in the spring try again after rewatching this. Thank you & Happy New Year from the west coast of Canada!

Kory thank you for the tutorial . Hang in there people are so annoying 😂

Uh-oh ! ! ! You missed a couple of fingers with your rings. ;o) Just teasing, it tickles me how people dress up their hands for videos, sometimes so much that it’s distracting. But yours are tasteful. Can’t believe how many great prints you got using craft paint! I’m all ears & eyes 💕❤️💕

You had asked if anyone knew what to do with your first pull from your leaf print. If you were to use a colorful paper to do the pull. The leaves would mask some of the area so when you pulled the print it would look like the leaves were a mask over the colored paper . You would see the leave pattern over the beautiful colored paper

thank you great video. will definitely try this. one thing to mention is that when you have the print of the leaf on the gel plate and it dries you can roll over the plate with gel matte medium which is clear ..and then you'll be able to pull the dried image right onto the first pull.

Couldn’t you roll additional paint over the leaf if it has dried too much before you pulled the leaf print, and just lay it back down again? Maybe? Thank you for your tutorial!!

You can cut those single leaflets that won't lay right, and you can place them wherever you want it. You really won't be able to tell on your print.

Great inspiration .... Thanks! Did you ever take your first pull print and lay it down (paint side up) then take your jelly plate and flip it over on top of that print and lay it down to push the details down onto the paper. Since the plate is transparent, you'll be able to position it easier. Just a thought ... I think I'll give that a try myself. Good luck

Hi Kory, beautiful work. Thank you so much for sharing. I wonder if when you take the leaves off the plate after a pull, and while the paint on the leaves is still wet, you give the painted side of the leaves a light spritz with water before lying them down onto background paper to print, whether the spritzed water might help get a better printed image?

Use the negatives as wrapping paper.

Curious how these techniques work for you with tissue paper. I personally like creating collage papers using tissue paper because it’s so transparent and just melts into the background of my art journal. Whereas copy paper is thicker and I find a bit harder to use in art journals. Just curious if you’ve tried these techniques with tissue paper and how were the results?

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Will you tell me what I’m doing wrong with the dried print? I’m so frustrated. I’ve tried over and over and the dry paint print will not transfer. Do I need a certain type of paint? Only the top layer comes up. I would really appreciate your help with this.

If your paint is drying, try misting it.

Do “pouring acrylics” work too?

I don’t see the name of the first Folk Art paint you use. Are you saying Ashbaltum? Hard to believe such a complex brown comes from a bottle. Normally, I would think it was mixed. Thanks.