There are so many different effects you can achieve by using acrylic paints and a Gelli plate. I've recently bought a 5"x7" Gelelf plate and am really happy with it! My previous gel plate was stained yellow from using alcohol inks on it, which doesn't affect how it works; it just means you don't get a true colour representation if you look at the underside of your gel plate to see what the pulled print will look like. I wanted to try an abstract landscape technique I'd seen recently, and because this is also a cover class where the pull needs to be big enough to fit my 6" x 8" cover of my book, this technique works perfectly, and it also makes perfect ATC-sized prints. I used only Amsterdam paints for all of these prints, as I've found some paints bead up on a gel plate, and I needed consistency for this technique. This is the cover for Technique Book #35.
The size of my cover for my book is 6" x 8" (15cm x 20cm),
so a 5" x 7" gel print fits really well with a border around it.
Seawater
Cosmic Insignificance
(I love these little rocket ship dies)
Live in the moment
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give an idea of how the whole sheet looks before
cutting it up into ATCs.
