Gelli plate printing elementary

Mixed-meida artist Jodi Ohl gives you an overview of printmaking with a Gelli® Plate, along with some great tips.

Create your own monoprints with gelli plate printing! Versatile, easy and a ton of fun, come learn one of the greatest gelli plate techniques!

We're excited to have art educator Kristin Bolster on the blog today to teach us how to make these pop art prints with Gelli® plates! Hello! Kristen Bolster here. I created this assignment to combine pop art and language arts for my middle school students. We explored onomatopoeia, sounds words, and shape sounds. Although this

Hi! Tania here and today I am going to show you a technique that uses string pulling to give you some cool results in your prints! Step 1 In a container, mix acrylic paint and water. I am using Gelli Arts® Sunbeam paint as I love how it pops against the background colors I will

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Here's a great way to repurpose styrofoam plates to use in monoprinting! Watch this video for ideas on how to make your own unique reusable designs for gel printing! It's fun turning styrofoam plates into reusable texture plates with your own designs! They're perfect for creating texture plates — especially for the small Gelli® plate sizes! Here's

"Snowflakes in a Rainbow" would be a great way to describe the effects of our 3-layered gelli prints. This was our very first time trying the gelli plates for printmaking, and we learned lots for the future. It is a tradition to cut paper snowflakes in my art room during the final days of the year, and we used those as our stencils for printing. We used Blick brand mixing acrylics in primary yellow, blue, and magenta on white sulphite paper. Here are some of our colorful results!

Top tips for when you want to print seamlessly on a canvas or a surface that’s larger than your Gelli Arts® gel printing plate. The tips will help with monoprinting on any substrate that doesn’t match the size of your gel printing plate. Click to watch the full video tutorial on our blog. #gelliarts #gelplate #printingplate #monoprinting #printmaking #gelprinting #gelliplate #artteacher

While prowling Michaels the other day, I came across these neat fun foam kits. They were, as fun foam usually is, in the kid's aisle, but I have no clue how children use these- to me, they scream, "printing plates," so I snatched up two of the kits. Inside the kit are two cut fun foam sheets and four uncut sheets. The sheets measure 8 1/2" x 11 1/2", the largest I've found so far with designs cut into them. The two sheets in the photo above are from two different sets. The really cool thing…