Fun with Gelli Plate Prints
By Sabine, Klink, Katrin Ickler
By Sabine, Klink, Katrin Ickler
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$23.95
Apr 22, 2025 | ISBN 9781800923218
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Praise
Publishers Weekly
Ickler and Klink debut with a wonderful introduction to gelli printing, which in its simplest form involves pressing paper or fabric onto a gelatin plate covered in wet acrylic paint. The authors outline many variations on the process, suggesting that readers might create texture by marking up the painted plate with tools or utensils, or that they might place seedheads on the gelli before printing to make silhouettes of the plants. The magazine resist technique is particularly impressive and entails pressing a glossy page onto a painted plate, which retains the image, and then printing the result. Other strategies include using stamps to absorb paint on gelli plates, which produces a relief of the stamp’s image on the final print, and generating a “grunge effect” by placing stenciled letters on a painted plate and then covering them with another color before printing, leaving behind hazy impressions of the letters. The bounty of techniques showcases the medium’s many possibilities, though the projects offer more inspiration than guidance. For instance, the authors show how they used cutout block letters to adorn the word “bag” onto fabric, but give only a rudimentary description of how they transformed that fabric into a drawstring backpack. Still, this will get crafters’ creative juices flowing. (Apr.)
Table Of Contents
Foreword 6
1. Materials, paints & techniques
Materials; The Gelli Plate 12; Paints 14; Paper and Fabric 16; Tools 18; Stamps 20
COLOURS; Understanding and Mixing Colours – The Colour Palette 24; The Colour Wheel 25; Colour Gradations 26; Saturation 27; Complementary Colours 28; Colours Around Us 29; Developing Your Own Colour Combinations 30
PRINTING; Printing with Simple Household Objects 34; Printing Simple Shapes 36; Multicolour Printing 38; Ghost Prints 40
STENCILS & STAMPS; The Grunge Effect 44; Potato Printing 48; Sketchbook with Potato Printing 50; Fabric Collection and Yellow Bag 52; Foam Rubber Stamps 54; Eraser Stamps 56; Japanese Fabric Bags 58
RESIST PRINTING; Wax Resist Technique 62; Motif Printing with Magazines 64
WATERCOLOURS; Using Watercolours 72
FREESTYLE; Printing Freestyle Patterns 76; Combining with Other Materials 78; Printing on Tissue Paper 79; Printing Large Surfaces or Joins 80; Printing Aprons 82; Printing Mandalas 84
2. From Print to Design; A Whole New World of Gelli Printing 90
3. Projects; Mini Book 96
Travel Bags 98; Gardening Gloves 104; Japanese Pouch 105; Cans, Boxes, and Bowls 106; Covering Objects with Tyvek® 108; Art Wall 110; Geometric Shapes 112; 3D Geometric Shapes 114; Lampshades 116; Covering with Printed Tissue Paper 117; Shopping Bag 120; Bunting 121; Zipped Bag 122; Collage of Various Prints 124; Kimono 126; Lunch Bag 128; Bag with Rings 130; Oven Gloves 131
APPENDIX; Stencils 134; About the authors 143
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