and watching Seth Apter work on a gel plate. ‘Not much to report.
Jun11
Tag Archives: gel plate
Jun4
The Great Glycerin Experiment
I’ve said before that I hate cleaning a gel plate. I decided to clean this grubber while I watched PMartist Studio on Tuesday.
I used hand sanitizer, baby oil, a lint roller and packing tape. I also used a lot of elbow grease. There was still scant smudges of paint on the plate.
During the stream, someone mentioned oil soap in relation to cleaning stencils. For some reason, that made me think of glycerin, and I have lots of glycerin soap melt from making melt and pour soaps.
I dug out a couple of cubes. I misted the plate with water, and started “skating” a cube around.
Using paper towels, the remaining paint tended to come up much more easily than with hand sanitizer or baby oil.
Yesterday, I placed a Walmart delivery order and included a bottle of liquid glycerin.
I tried a few drops on the plate. Again, using a paper towel, I was able to get the very last crumblies of paint off the plate. After it dried, I rubbed baby oil all over the plate and massaged it in. I’ll let it rest until tomorrow.
The lighter areas are just air bubbles under the plate. The plate is lying on a desk top made of solid surface counter top. This is what it looks like bare:
You can see that the gel plate is clean and almost transparent.
May29
Gel plates
I hate cleaning them. There’s got to be a better way. Thinking…
May21
Lots of Little Things
That’s what I accomplished, today:
I cleaned gel plates, some with hand sanitizer, some with baby oil, some by trying to pull what’s on the plate.
I sanded the back of my lavender dotted flower, and found some paint to match.
It’ll take a few coats.
I finished my, yes it’s pink, dotted flower, went through my haul, and realized I had bought another corner bookmark kit!
I also went to the grocery store, watched EddieMakesArt make some gorgeous gel prints and image transfers, EddieMakesArt
and took a nap.
This 100 day project will be over soon, and I’ll try not to post unless I have something truly post worthy. Eddie’s video is post worthy.
I’ve learned the time it takes to blog every day, could be creating time.
Apr18
Saving the Last of the Dogwoods
The dogwoods in front of my house have been glorious!
Now, the dogwoods are past their season. Surviving blossoms are pitiful.
I thought maybe I could use them to print on the gel plate. I used some blossoms to pull paint from the plate.
I used others like stamps, painting the bracts (petals,) and center.
The paint “celled” so badly, i kept adding paint till I produced this.
I’m anxious to pull this, but I can’t decide between light blue or a rich leafy green.
I also spent the better part of today dodging a telephone scam. Maybe that’s a craft, and I can find the energy to share that someday. For today, I’m exhausted.
Mar29
Watching Froyle on the Big Screen!
The big screen is a large tv from my friend, Laura. We love You Tube art and craft videos, and when we’re at my house, in the den/study, we’ve been watching on a very small tv. We might as well set up an iPad.
Froyle is Froyle Davies, the first gel print artist that I ever watched. She turns her gel prints into fantastic collages!
She is a joy to watch! She is animated and full of laughter. Her New Zealand accent is icing on the cake.
I watched this episode first, today.
She compared three weights of Gelelf’s new image transfer papers.
They all worked beautifully.
To learn how to transfer images onto the gel plate, be sure to watch this episode. Warning: she makes it look easy. It’s not! I’ve had two successful image transfers. I’ll share them another time.
I’m going to try, again, and send you all good wishes if you decide to give it a go!
Apr29
Yupo is Useful, but Crab Cake Box is Cheaper!
Pulled with ArtSmith acrylic in medium magenta on copy paper
Inspired by Patricia Carmichael of PM Artist Studio’s use of a Marie Calendar pot pie box, I decided to try cutting a stencil from a washed piece of Phillips crab cake box.
I used my ScanNCut, and lengthened the blade a notch (5.) It worked beautifully, both the cutting and the printing.
But then the paint dried on the blank side of the box, and it puckered, making the stencil bowed and pretty useless. Maybe, I could wash the paint off, immediately, or maybe I could put the dried stencil between heavy books.
I’d still call it a success, for stencils you only need to use once!
Apr12
5×7” Gel Plate!
I found where I had buried my new 5×7”gel plate! I got it out if the package and put it to work!
New gel plates are oily, so I expected bubbles in the paint.
I let both layers dry before pulling them. I used copy paper to pull, and a new brayer to paint! I am well pleased!
#the100dayproject2024, #fix,finishandfind Day 45