Gelli Plate Printing

The revolutionary printing plate that enables a faster, friendlier approach to printmaking now has its own guidebook! In Gelli Plate Printing, Joan Bess — inventor of the concept for the Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate — unleashes the fun through more than 50 step-by-step projects.

For artists and crafters who love the creative possibilities of monoprinting on gelatin but not the prep time, mess, and inconvenience that come with it, the Gelli Plate is a dream come true! It's durable, reusable, storable at room temperature, and ready for use whenever inspiration strikes.

In this premier guide, Bess shows you how to create intriguing patterns using your Gelli Plate and tools like sponges, textured rollers, homemade combs, stencils, and rubber stamps. You can experiment with metallic paints, dimensional paints, and gel mediums. Become a "texture hunter" and explore a wide world of effects using embossed papers, natural objects, rubber bands, lace, corrugated cardboard, metal tape, die cut letters — anything goes!

Beginners can enjoy immediate gratification and have a stack of amazing prints in no time. More experienced printmakers are pushed to experiment, adapt, combine, and layer. It's easy, fun and totally addicting!

For added inspiration, a 26-page gallery is included to show the many wonderful ways artists are incorporating Gelli Plate printing into their work.

Author — Joan Bess.

Paperback. 144 pages. 6" × 8¼" (15 cm × 21 cm).