Gelli prints from Co Mixed Media meeting

Gelli printing is so fast and easy,  I was able to work on a lot of pieces yesterday.  Here are the fifteen best, all in one shot. These are pretty much complete. There were more prints than this, but I feel they could use some work.

Yellow flowers.

Coneflowers.

Birds and flowers.

Red Abstract

Flowers.

Pink flower.

This is a stencil of me, that I cut out of thin mylar. The top portion is big bubble wrap.

Birds and grids (two ways).

Lots of fun, and the results are unpredictable.

Colorado Mixed Media Club, June meeting, gelli printing

Yesterday for our June meeting, we did gelli printing. Sabyl showed us a way to do color block printing, including adding marks. 

 Demo pieces.

We played with this, as well as using stencils.

Here is Sidran with one of her works.

Here is Laurie, she wasn't too happy with hers...

Sue Clarke was happy, she did some lovely experimenting.

Two of Sue's pieces.

I didn't get a picture of Sue Shenk, but here are some of her works, and a close-up.

Sabyl's pieces.

 Here I am. Picture by Sue Clarke.

Here is my favorite piece. I will show some others in a separate post.

I did not get a picture of Susan and her work.

This is a great picture of Simone and Sabyl goofing around. Photo by Sue Clarke.

Colorado Mixed Media Club May meeting: stencils and gelli printing

Saturday was the May meeting of the Colorado Mixed Media Club. May is a pretty hectic month, so we did gelli printing with stencils, which we've played with before. This time, we made our own stencils using a thin graphic (mylar type) film, and made prints using a Gelli plate and open acylic paints.

Here are a bunch of Sabyl's stencils
 

Sabyl's plate while she is laying down stencils.

Here is one of Sabyl's demo prints.

Here is one of the stencils I made (using a photo of myself). This is after I printed with it.

My stencils of cone flowers.

Laurie at work.

Laurie's print.

Another of Laurie's.

Enid reviewing her prints.

Three prints of Enid's.

My print with my face stencil. I printed this on some canvas paper that already had paint on it.

My cone flowers.

The turquoise is a print from a flower stencil, printed on pre-painted freezer paper.

Susan's print using my stencil.

We had a good time, and I want to make some more stencils. The film we used was easy to cut, because it was very thin.

Gelli printing on paper and fabric

I had my Gelli printing supplies out over the Thanksgiving holiday so I thought I'd do some more prints before I put them all away.

These seven are all done on deli paper. The top row are prints using one stencil that was crazy loops/circles. The bottom left is a Julie Fei-Fan Balzer stencil. The three others on the bottom used a spring whisk and a small circle found object to make the patterns

These are all done on bleached muslin using the same supplies as above.

Some fabric close ups:

I am a little bit addicted to my spring whisk...

Gelli printing with family

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I took my Gelli printing supplies (Gelli plate 8x10, misc papers, misc paint, brayer, stencils) to our yearly family get-together.

My mom has been wanting to try Gelli printing and it was a great way to spend some quality time together (at least for us girls: my mom, my aunt, my sister, my niece, and I).

My sister's:
We typically put acrylic paint on the plate, then put stencils on top. Paper was put on top of the stencils and plate, and it was rubbed into all the stencil crevices.

On deli paper

Then after removing the paper and the stencils, there would be paint remaining on the plate. We would put another piece of paper down and rub over the surface to pick up the remaining paint. Sometimes we could get a third print. Halfway through our experiments, we realized we could put the paint covered stencil onto another sheet of paper to get yet another print.

On music sheet

On scrapbook paper with french writing

My niece's:

On rice paper

On bug page from illustrated encyclopedia

 My mom's:

On atlas page

On music sheet

On plant page from illustrated encyclopedia

 My aunt's:

On index page from encyclopedia

 Mine:

All on deli paper

My favorites

I love the stencil I used for the image on the left. It is a Julie Fei-Fan Balzer stencil I bought over the holiday. I think it rocks! By the way, I used Golden Fluid acrylic for just about all of our prints. I used Carbon Black for mine and the paint stuck to the plate like nobody's business. Mixing in some liquid matte medium into the black paint when brayering it on made it much easier to clean the plate afterward. Without the matte medium, I had to use soap and water to get it off completely.

Since I had my gelli printing supplies in one place when I got home, I did more gelli printing on Sunday. I will post those later this week.