These are beautiful, thank you so much for sharing. I have lots of different kinds of paper but no glossy and so many gelli print with alcohol ink videos focus on glossy it's good to see I don't need it, I can use what I have!
Just found you, and love your work! Interesting new ideas, so I can’t wait to try them. Your English is very good, and you explain everything nicely. Thank you !
Hi Joan, you can use acrylic ink but without the blending solution. Blending solution is only usefull in combination with alcohol ink. But acrylic ink and even acrylic paint you can combine with mediums like from Liquitex.
I would have liked to see marbling, too. Also wish you'd answered the previous questions about DYE ink. Are Distress reinkers OK? I don't want to ruin my gel plate.
Jackie sorry I'm so late with my reaction. You can use Distress reinkers to of course. Don't worry about your Gelliplate, it can have much I have noticed.
For those asking here,, DYE BASED inks are water soluble in a shellac base such as Windsor Newton calligraphy or drawing inks. I suppose they create a barrier on the gel plate before you add the alcohol inks over top. I don't know which brand he is using though.....I really liked the 'ghost print' he made with the Japanese paper.
Thank you Wayne! Great tutorial! A couple of questions: It seems that perhaps the dye ink pad re-inkers might work for the dye ink portion of the process?? What do you think about that? Also does the Japanese paper that you use have the soft almost fuzzy texture on the back of it and if yes how do you color that? I have some Japanese paper like that to use up but I would like to have both sides of the paper colored. Thank you so much for your help! I just found you!
You can use re inkers with dye ink. All dye ink will work I suppose. The Japanese paper I always use has one smooth surface. I don't know if you can use both sides with thin Japanese paper. Heavier paper will work.
Didee, there are several dye ink brands. One of them is Distress Ink from Ranger. Ranger has also a brand called Distress Oxide. Its a mix of dy ink and pigment ink.
Im always happy to see dudes creating too, I love it. I was bit scared for your nice shirt - especially the sleeves - but you didnt get a drop on in! For more traditional marbling with alcohol inks, just use hand sanitizer; a good (thick-ish) layer on the plate, then inks and you can manipulate them exactly like when marbling the traditional way (just dont use sharp tools with gel plate!). I liked all your prints, but the ricepaper ghostprint one was magical. Dankje well (sorry, Im just assuming youre from NL by your accent..) and greetings from Finland. -Jane
I presume the dye inks you are referring to are the re-inkers for distress, distress oxide and the archival ink pads. I also wondered if it would work with FW inks? I will play with all these and see what happens. Perhaps when you are making your videos you could show the bottles or pads to the camera, then everyone knows what you are using. Thanks for this video, great ideas.
Wayne. If you don't answer the questions people ask, they won't stick around. We need to interact and share hints and tips. It's no good showing people a wonderful new technique and leave them confused about how to do it.
Wayne Dieleman I appreciate u taking the time to make this video to teach us awesome ways to use alcohol ink on our gel presses... Even if u don't have any more time to answer any questions. Thank u so much. I'm definitely gonna try using alcohol inks on my gel press now that I've seen this video.
Nice video. But didnt see any Marbeling! This was only using alcohol ink and blending solution on a gelli plate. Only watched the video because I wanted to see actual Marbeling.
