Hello guys,It is so good to be back! It's Marta Lapkowska here today. I am overjoyed that I can share another art inspiration with you. I have to say... this project was in my mind the second I saw the beautiful arty stamps from Lynne Perrella. I adore her stamp style which gives us so much inspiration.
I created something totally out of my comfort zone... but I enjoyed every minute of the creative process. Gelli printing, stamping and a little bit of doodling is a great combination.
I started my work by creating gelli printing background.
I used Fresco Finish paints Plum, Chalk, Caramel and Copper. Instead of using brayer I used silicone brush. I was very curious how the brush will spread my paint. To be honest it did the job very well. The paints were blending fantastic!
To create some texture on my surface I used texture tool and some stencil.
Gelli printing has endless ways of playing with colour and you never know what you will end up with. This is the main reason why I love gelli printing.
My next step was to stamp the image from LPC34. I looked carefully on my paper and placed the stamp on my favourite spots.
Lastly I decided to doodle a little and add some colour here and there. At first I wanted to leave the images on the page but then I felt that fussy cutting them will create an illusion of paper dolls.
I hope I encoured you to draw and doodle a bit, it is fun thing to do and so easy. When you have such a wonderful stamp the rest will come to you very easy.
Thanks for joining us Marta, these are so much fun. i just love how you added the doodled arms and legs.. simples but effective, they could be awesome book marks! ~Darcy
We would love to see how you interpret this Mono Printing topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #9: Mono Printing, on this page HERE.
All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post. All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Mono Printing link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 15th 2016. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.
Hi everyone it's Sue here from Stamping Sue Style.Tonight I'd like to share with you this evening with a post about using a Gelli Plate with fabric. .
Pulling prints from a Gelli Plate is addictive to say the least and when you use fabric it's gets even more addictive !
Step One: First of all I cut a piece of white Egyptian cotton to the size required and left it to soak in some cold tea. When it was dry I then put Turquoise Fresco Finish mixed with a little Drying Retarder onto my Gelli Plate, grabbed a selection of stencils and laid them on top. I then pressed the tea dyed fabric onto the Gelli Plate and pulled the first print. The stencils were removed and I pulled a second print.
Step Two: I continued to pull more prints until the whole of the fabric was covered.
Step Three: I repeated the above process this time using LimeLight Fresco Finish.
Step Four: I then grabbed the small circle Gelli Plate and used Turquoise again with a Stencil Girl stencil and used it to stamp over the fabric.
Step Five: I trimmed the fabric down the size I wanted and folded it in half and put a craft sheet between the two sides. I then used the leaves from ELB26 with Winter Green mixed with a little LimeLight and stamped them trailing up in lines.
Step Seven: The daisy heads from ELB26 were stamped onto some more tea dyed fabric and then painted with Claret Fresco Finish. I then cut them out and glued them to the front cover along with the stalks from the same stamp set.
Step Eight: I did some more stamping once the main flowers were in place using a stamp from ELB25 using Claret and Winter Green Fresco Finish.
Step Nine: To finish the cover I stamped the word Daisy from ELB26 and did some cross stitching around the edge. Then I backed the cotton with a thicker piece of fabric to give it more weight.
Step Ten: I will be adding some signatures to create the journal so used three large eyelets to be able to secure them.
One final shot to share the back cover and also the piece of left over fabric that I've used to hold the cover closed.
Using a Gelli Plate is always interesting as the prints you pull are so unique. Different mediums makes it even more so and using a fine cotton fabric gives really great results. Even if you've never used a Gelli Plate before you will end up with something that you can include in a project, even if it's not the main part of it. I hope you get time to pull some prints.
Sue Carrington
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This is fab Sue, so vibrant. The background layers starting with tea are so complimentary, and really support the pops of Claret. I thnk Gelli plates are perfect for fabric, possibly even more so than paper. ~Darcy
We would love to see how you interpret this Mono Printing topic by linking what you make to our 2016 Challenge #9: Mono Printing, on this page HERE.
All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post.
All links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Mono Printing link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 15th 2016. The winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.
Tonight I'd like to share with you this evening with a post using the Gelli Plate and The Cat's Meow Ocean stamps . Now
I have to be honest and say that although I have a Gelli, (it was one
of those must have buys!) I hardly ever use it, although I have seen
other people producing lovely backgrounds with it. For my project I'm
going to use it with inks and look at how you can use it to take out
colour and create mirror images of your stamps.
Brayer on your first ink colour - here I've used Distress inkpad Salty Ocean:
Add some Chipped Sapphire ink at the top and blend together:
Here I've taken the frame I'm going to use and pressed it down into the ink so I can see where to stamp:
Next, press a clean stamp down onto the inked area - you're going to take colour out:
You can just see the outline of the seagull:
Add
more stamping - extra logs and shells - and take a print. It gives a
ghost like effect. (Sorry my camera died here and I forgot to take a
separate pic!):
Next
use your Gelli to produce a reverse image of the seagull. Just ink up
with Distress Hickory Smoke, stamp , lay card on top and pull off image:
To finish the frame: crumple up and tear the background a bit and insert in frame. Give the frame a loose wash with Chalk Fresco paint
and dab with one of the baby wipes you used to clean the Gelli to get
some blue tones in there. Stamp 'Ocean ' in Hickory Smoke and outline
with a black watercolour pencil. Use inkpads and watercolour pencils to
colour in the extra images (all stamped in Hickory Smoke), cut out and
layer up.
The
best thing I liked about this project was being able to get a reverse
image of my seagull that looks as though it's been directly stamped. The
ghosting in the background was okay, but I did find that the Gelli does
have a bit of a mind of its own and picks up every little blob or mark
that comes out in the print whether you like it or not - hence why I
crumpled it all up a bit to make it look 'worn'. Not sure if that's
because the ink is reacting with the surface of the Gelli Plate. I
didn't have any of the Drying Retarder for the Frescos, but if you did, you could try this technique with paint instead.
Thanks Helen for kicking off our new topic with this lovely 3d project. I like how the reverse stamping worked on the seagulls, as well as how you have managed to create so much dimension using the pencils on the other focal images. ~Gillian
We would love to see how you interpret this Mono Printing topic by linking what you make to our 2016Challenge #9: Mono Printing, on this page HERE.
All of our bloggers love to see your twist on their ideas, particularly if you were inspired directly by their post.
All
links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your
choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Mono Printing link will
close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 15th 2016. The winner will be
announced 2 hours later at 19:00.
Hi everyone, Darcy here we are with the start of another topic, this time we are mono printing. This is the technical term for creating 'one off' prints, and there are many ways to do this. The name 'mono' means single, and in this case it means a single print can be made at a time. Each successive print needs more paint or ink applied to the block or plate, this changes each print ever so slightly, meaning no two are identical. With some techniques the changes are deliberate and more pronounced with the addition or removal of elements between prints.
Prints can include paint, ink, collage,stencilling, mark making and additions such as leaves, string and other found objects. All these contribute to very unique prints. Once the plate is ready a layer of paper or fabric is added and pressure applied and the ink or paint is transferred. Altering the colour, type of paint and pressure will all achieve different results.
This type of printing is spontaneous and unpredictable and although messy can be a lot of fun, with the variations being endless.
Before we start, let's see who won the Topic 8: White Space Challenge...
Well what a 'clean and minimal' couple of weeks we have had! Some really beautiful pieces that make the most of space with just pops of colour. Well done everyone that conquered the fear of 'white' and produced great compositions and balance.
The winner of White Space is: Laury with this great bookmark from Laury55
Email Darcy to claim your prize. Darcydotneedles@hotmail.com
Ok let's get into this topic and see how many techniques we can find. As you might have guessed printing is not new, artists such as Rembrandt, Degas, Gauguin, Picasso and Matisse are but a few that used mono printing. They experimented with paint and ink, how each layer was applied, with swiping and moving the paint/ink around with brushes, sponges and sticks, just like we do today. They also added accents by hand after the print was made.
One of the older techniques (and there are many) that you will have heard about and perhaps tried is Lino printing, where sheets of lino are gouged with metal blades to create a design. This is then inked with a brayer and the print is made. Layers can be achieved by then cutting more lino away, adding a different colour ink or paint and replacing the original print to be pulled again.
Small pieces of lino and hand held blades are fairly cheap and easy to find in most art shops, they are an excellent way to get started with printing.
Here is Picasso working on a lino cut from 1959
This is a gorgeous multi layer lino print from Angie Lewin She has a book of her prints, drawings and collage available. I can recommend it as a beautiful 'coffee table' book, full of stunning imagery though it does not contain any technique how to's.
Another multi layered lino cut here, this time from Jill Kerr.
Another older technique still used today is screenprinting, originally called silkscreen printing as silk was used before the invention of synthetic mesh. Evidence of this goes back to China in 960 AD and did not arrive in the West until the 18th century. A blocking template or stencil is used to cover the mesh in the chosen design. Then a blade or squeegee is used to pull paint or ink across the mesh. The medium seeps through the mesh onto the chosen substrate, with only the blanked out areas left clear.
Andy Warhol made screen printing popular in the 1960's, here he is working on one of his iconic images.
Many layers can be added,each a different colour, take a look at this screen print.. this has 21 colours.
Next we have Collagraphy; this involves gluing items to a stable background such as strong card or wood. One dried, pigments can be applied with a brush or brayer and then a print can be taken. Collagraphs are often done with found objects such as leaves, string, bubble wrap, fibres, card shapes etc the resulting prints can be really interesting.
This stunning hedgerow print by Lynn Bailey has 8 layers, each time items were added or removed to achieve this composition.
and another one from Lynn Bailey. How gorgeous is this print, can you imagine it over book text?
Here is a super simple one done just with paper clips.
There is a great pdf HERE, showing the basics of how to make a collagraph plate.
Now for probably the most strange form of printing, while I have known about this for several years I have never tried it and honestly I don't plan to. The technique is Gyotaku and is an ancient Japanese method of printing from fish! Yes you read that correctly, ink is applied to a real fish and then a print is taken. Just the thought of handling the fish is enough to put me off, but even I have to admit the printed results are stunning. If you fancy learning more then have a read of THIS page.
So, onto the forms of printing that most of us are familiar with.. and using plates that are more accessible. after all not everyone has a full fish just hanging around!
The most popular way of printing at the moment is Gelli Printing. This is a flexible plate that looks like Gelatin but is made from mineral oil and a polymer material. Provided you care for your plate it will last a long time, can be used over and over and is easy to clean. All plus points.
The Gelli plate is available in quite a few sizes now and recently mini plates in various shapes have been launched. If you have a plate and have not yet tried it then now is your chance. The best place to start is the Gelli Arts Website. There you will find lots of hints and tips and they also have a youtube channel that is packed with great videos.
Gelli prints are useful as a base for so many pieces of art. On this one Dina Wakely has drawn a face over her print.
Here you can see the round plates have been used onto fabric creating a fabulous piece that has been turned into a cushion.
Lots of items can be used on the Gelli plate to create patterns and textures: stencils, found objects, catalyst wedge tools, brushes, foam shapes and stamps. Many can be homemade, just be careful to never use anything with a sharp edge that could damage your plate.
Marie Allen made these great texture plates from thin foam, these would add brilliant patterning to a gelli printing session.
Once your prints have been pulled and dried, what can you make? Well how about a papier mache bowl .
Or create a bright and cheery card like this from Becky. Simple circles cut from Gelli prints turn into really eyecatching lollipop flowers.
Great prints are all about the layers, working out from back to front in which order everything should go. Andy Skinner shows just how effective this can be, with a bit of careful planning.
How about Circles on Stripes. Here Joan has cut prints into strips and then added more prints that have been cut into circles. So striking, it looks like a solar system!
There are so many things that are crying out to be gelli printed, such as SHOES or how about a CASE. { I think i might love that case a lot}
Once your basic print is ready you can add so many other personal touches, such as stamping, sketching, even embossing. These cards by Godelieve Tijskens have gold embossing added, it adds a further dimension and makes them very special.
You could get all whimsical like Diane did with this cat, follow the link in her name to a complete tutorial. Such a fun piece, check out her steps.
One of our favourite Gelli artists is the lovely Barbara Gray, her youtube channel is full of fabulous videos. It was hard to pick just one, but this one is so effective. A very simple technique, ideal if you are just getting started.
I think you will agree there are some great pieces of art out there. But what if you don't have a Gelli plate? well fear not you can still make prints. If you fancy a bit of alchemy you can create your own Gelli plate, Pam Thorburn has a recipe HERE.
For a cheap alternative try printing from a Plastic Bag, Alisa Burke shows you how HERE. you could also use a plastic stationery folder in the same way.
Try asking in your local DIY shop, see if they will cut a couple of pieces of acrylic or perspex for you. You can do mono printing on one piece, but if you use both pieces together you can try Dendritic printing. The name dendritic means 'having a branch form like a tree' You may have seen me demo this technique at a show. You apply paint to one plate and then lay the 2nd plate on top, press a little and then pull apart. The result is amazing, lots of little fern like branches all over the paint. This creates fabulous prints.
Finally I will leave you with one of my favourite videos of the past few years. Laura Kemshall has such a calm and lovely voice and she explains this fabric printing technique so well that you are bound to want to try it.
So, are you all fired up and ready to get printing? I hope these examples have worked their magic on you. Whether you unpack your Gelli plate,( or indeed have a go at making your own) or if you print from a plastic bag, or if you are really brave and find a fish to print.. I hope you have a great fortnight.
Don't forget to follow Darcy's and Leandra's pinterest board if this topic pushes your buttons, you will see plenty more examples to whet your appetite there!
I am really looking forward to seeing what you create over the next 2 weeks! Darcy
Topic 9: Mono Printing PaperArtsy Blog Challenge
We'd love you to share your ideas and link up your creative response to our current blog topic. Take a minute to read the challenge guidelines below.
All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Mono Printing link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, May 15th 2016, winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.
1. The challenge is a for you to show how you are inspired by the current blog topic.
Your entry should contain:
- a mention of which post inspired you and why, and
- a link in your blog post to that original post on the PA blog.
The whole concept of this challenge is 'play along with us'. You are encouraged to put your own twist on ideas you see on our blog, do your own thing - whatever grabs you!
2. The link you put on our linky page must lead directly to the specific post on your blog where you have explored the technique/ idea mentioned in point 1 above. Don't link to the home page of your blog.
3. We prefer your challenge blog post is created exclusive to our challenge, but if our topic fits perfectly with another challenge, then you may link to both if appropriate.
4. You are most welcome to use stamps/ products/ substrates you have to hand from a variety of companies, we do not expect you to exclusively use PA products - it's lovely when you do though!
6. You can enter as many times as you like. We don't want to restrict your creativity!
NB. Link closes at 17:00 Sunday May 15th 2016 (London Time)
7. The winner of the random draw will receive a £50 credit voucher to be redeemed on the PaperArtsy Website. The credit voucher includes VAT and postage. We request that one of your purchases is an A5 rubber stamp. You can add any other items to your basket, but the final total should not exceed £50.
8. Each fortnight on Sunday, the winner will be announced at 19:00 (London time). In the same post, the link for the next fortnight will be posted.
9. It's your responsibility to claim your prize coupon from Darcy.
email: darcydotneedles@hotmail.com
Good Luck! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
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