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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Gel Medium Resist with Gelli Plate

Well I finally got a chance to try the gel medium resist technique! Ever since I saw the tutorial on the Gelli Arts site I've been dying to try it out (http://gelliarts.blogspot.ca/).  It was a long weekend here in Canada, and I even took a couple of extra days off so that I would have more time to get everything done and still have time to play.  And this is what I did....

First...yes, I am one of those people that don't clean their Gelli Plate too often.  However, most of the blue and green on here is actually newly dried paint from the previous prints.  I decided to leave it there to see what would happen.  I applied a thin layer of gel medium on the plate with my brayer.

Then I added a few stencils...

 
 
And took the first pull.  Love the blues and greens that came up with this print.  I set it aside to dry...



Once dry, I added some Distress Paint...


Then wiped it off to reveal the resist.  A little bit "muddier than I had envisioned...but I still really like the blues and greens peaking through.



Next I added a fuschia paint to the Gelli Plate and added some small doilies to mask parts of the print.

I then started working on some other prints, adding to this one as I went along and the mood struck...dark blue aboriginal stencil, teal blazonry stencil, red harlequin stencil and bubble doily stencil, green rain drops. I also used the die cut bird on a print and when I pulled it off the plate I pressed it onto this print to stamp the image. 

 
Finally, I doodled around the bird and some of the teal blazonry images. 
 
 

This was another one of the gel medium experiments.  This time I sprayed with Dylusions ink sprays.
 

I added some orange Bubble Doily over the resist print.

 
And while trying to decide what to do next, I spotted this "eye" and thought I could do something with that...looks a bit "Egyptian" to me...

 
As I contined to look at the print I spotted a lion..or tiger (almost cartoonish)... Can you see it in the hexagon?  How cool is that!
 
 
I'm going to have to think about where I want to go next with this print.

7 comments:

  1. Very cool prints Julie. Love that resist technique. I need to play some more with that one!

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  2. Love the finished birdy print! Very nice. :)

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  3. These came out great. Glad there are other folks out there who like the paint on the gelli and what shows up. Visiting from Artists in Blogland. xox

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  4. Hi Julie, I love the bird painting that you made. I am trying to choose what (black) ink or paint to use to embellish my gelli prints. Do you have any advice for me? I have some markers and gel pens, but I am unsatisfied. What did you use to make the darker black lines? Thank you for any recommendations.

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  5. Hi Julie, I love the bird painting that you made. I am trying to choose what (black) ink or paint to use to embellish my gelli prints. Do you have any advice for me? I have some markers and gel pens, but I am unsatisfied. What did you use to make the darker black lines? Thank you for any recommendations.

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