gelliclopedia - transfer film

It's been a while since I did a post in my gelliclopedia series, my sincere apologies but I have been creatively busy otherwise.
But as the purpose of this series was to improve my printing abilities I ought it was time to tackle some more techniques. 
I remembered seeing a video on the gelli arts blog about gelli transfer prints and wanted to try this for ages, I already bought some stickyback adhesive clear film (used to protect books) so nothing to hold me back there. Even the weather is with me, because it is really hot today, just ideal for this technique because you need to let the paint dry completely before adding another layer or pulling the print. So I grabbed paints, texturizers, the gelli plate and of coarse the adhesive film, took it outside and played a bit.

This is my first attempt and I must say I think the best one, I need to run out to the craft department to get some gold foil which will enhance it even more.

This is an example where I should have stopped before adding a stencil, I figured out for myself that I like the more simple designs without a lot of layering. This one is backed with aluminumfoil (the scan doesn't really pick this up)

A black and white version which I backed with some bookpaper

In the video they mention mica, gold foil, aluminum foil and bookpaper as backing materials, I was wondering what happens if you use delipaper ( which of coarse was also gelli printed)

After puling next print I realized that in fact it is the best thing to first place some pieces of delipaper (as they suggest in the video) on the plate to create blank spaces

However I seem to have an issue with it staying in place when rolling on the paint??

Because you add silver/gold on the print I wanted to experiment with some metallic paint:

I didn't use anything to create texture, it's just the marks of rolling the brayer.  And instead of using pieces of delipaper I used some masks out of plastic. Works like a charm. I might back this with some black paper.
Next up was this print, along with the first one my favourite

For the last print of the day I used some pearlescent paints, masks of stars and butterflies, stamped some flowers with a glass coaster. I'm glad I added some bold color because the pearlescent paint is really subtle (hardly visible)

So far my experiments with transfer film, this was absolutely fun play, if you haven't given this already a go I can highly recommend it.

gelliclopedia - gradient colors

I wanted to see what happens when you use 2 colors in 1 layer instead of layer upon layer.
I experimented with mixing 2 colors and placing 2 colors next to each other:

• shades of the same color, in this instance green:

• contrasting colors:

I like the blots of color in the first column of prints.

The second column has a gradient effect,

I elaborated on the gradient style by applying 3 stripes of paint: 

 I really enjoy this experimenting, it's just playtime, no overthinking, just painting up the plate and making prints, great to clear my head and get rid of any stress.
What do you do to relax?

gelliclopedia part1

It has been a while since I played around with my gelli plate, shame on me, urgently got to change that.

In Carolyne Dube’s community A colorful playground over on google+  there are so many talented gelli printers, I am not wowed by my own results so decided to start experimenting some more to improve myself. I want to put together kind of a manual for myself ( a gelliclopedia) with what works and what doesn’t.

I started with exploring colors, color combo’s, paint types…

My key learning's thus far are:

1.      I prefer the more translucent paints
2.     A print gets more interesting by adding different elements to one      print ( I tend to make prints with only one stencil, one texture, but when combining several together suddenly it becomes more intriguing)
3.  Layering (best to start with the darkest color, when you use shades of the same color you create a nice shadow effect)

Here are some examples of my first run

first play with this homemade stencil, LOVING it!

2 prints with the other 2 stencils

flower coasters as stencil, combo of warm colors

fern as mask

detail of a print where I used
 an embossed paper as texture,
love the different shades of green

there is also something like too much layering

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