Gelli Plate Printing Workshop
Explore the wonderful art of printing with Gelli Plates!
Workshop information:
Explore the art of printing with Gelli Plates, a versatile and captivating tool that can produce stunning and unique prints. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or a beginner, this workshop will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to create stunning prints that you can use in various crafting projects or as standalone pieces of art.
Workshop Highlights:
1. Introduction to Gel Plates
- What is a gelli plate: Types, sizes, and purpose
- Understanding the advantages of using gel plates
- The variety of substrates that can be used for gel plate printing
- To clean or not to clean: Maintenance and care tips
2. Hands-On Demonstrations
- Creating one, two, and three layers of paint prints
- Exploring the art of working backward: Choosing colors strategically
- Dive into mark making techniques, including simple strokes, nature-inspired motifs, junk art, stencils/masks, and stamps
- Enhancing your prints with additional details, marks, trimming, and stamping
3. Further Exploration
- Beyond acrylic paints: Discovering other mediums compatible with gel plates, such as inks, watercolors, paint pens, sprays, resist techniques, and gel medium
- Creative applications for your gel prints: From card making to framing and collage
- Exploring DIY gel plate options
- Identifying materials to avoid using with gel plates for longevity
4. All Materials Provided
We provide all the materials you require, but if you have your own Gelli plate please bring it along. We will also treat you to a slice of delicious homemade cake.
By the end of the session, you’ll have a collection of vibrant gel plate prints on various backgrounds that you can use in your own crafting projects or as inspiration for future artistic endeavors.
Whether you’re interested in mixed media art, card making, or simply looking to explore new artistic techniques, this workshop will equip you with the skills and knowledge to take your creativity to the next level. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to unleash your inner artist and create stunning gel plate prints!
About your tutor
Tracey Peacock
Outside of work as an office manager, I’ve always created and 20 years ago I started making greetings cards for family and friends. With an inability to throw anything possibly useful away, I now make all sorts of things with paper: journals and scrapbooks, postage stamp art projects, alongside a bit of abstract art and a little slow stitching, beadwork and embroidery all of which I use to make junk journals – bound bits of paper in a cover that would otherwise be thrown away in which to create art, write or keep mementoes. You’ll never look at packaging in the same way!
I also love creating my own bits of patterned paper to work with on greetings cards, in collages or in journals using a gel plate which allows unique mono-prints to be created using paint or ink with no need for a lot of expensive or complicated equipment, just one’s imagination.