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Gelli Plate Printing

Introducing...Monoprinting Without a Press


Gelli printing plates from Gelli Arts are a great way to create texture and surface patterns. All kinds of fantastic results can be produced, and you can be more creative than you may at first think.


You can produce your own designs by making marks and pressing textured objects into the wet paint on the Gelli plate. Prints can be made onto multiple surface types for different effects. The plates themselves are easy to clean, and reusable.


To start, you will need acrylic paints in a variety of colours, a roller, and some tools or found objects for mark-making. You can even print from magazines, but we’ll look at that in a future article.

Gelli Plate Printing

1. Tape a sheet of printer paper to your workspace and roll your chosen acrylic colours onto the Gelli plate - a little goes a long way!


Gelli Plate Printing

Apply paper to the plate, press down and rub gently, then peel off.

Repeat steps 1 and 2 to create multiple backgrounds.


Gelli Plate Printing

3. Apply a new contrasting colour to the Gelli plate.

Apply stencils or found objects with interesting textures on top of the painted surface and print on top of one of your backgrounds.


Gelli Plate Printing

4. Roll a new colour onto the plate, apply stencil and print on top of layer 2, to build up colour and texture.


Gelli Plate Printing

This is an example of simple 3-layer print.


Gelli Plate Printing

5. Remove stencil from plate, revealing another surface to print.


Gelli Plate Printing

6. Using a different background, print off the remaining paint from the plate before cleaning.


Gelli Plate Printing

This process creates a ghost/negative image!

Following this, clean the plate with warm soapy water, and store the Gelli Plate carefully; flat, in the clamshell packaging it came in.


Click Here to view the full range of Gelli Arts printing plates.

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