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Self-adhesive alphabets are available at art and craft stores - and they’re great for this technique!Īrrange the letters and adhere them to the substrate of your choice - to create a lettered printing plate. This can include hand-cut letters, die-cuts, craft foam letters, and chipboard letters. Use cut out letters! Ideally, with some dimension. Golden Open Acrylics are ideal for this! Or add Golden Open Medium or Acrylic Glaze to your regular acrylic paint to increase its working time while adding transparency.Īdd a second gel- printed layer using transparent pigments - to create wonderful mixed colors on your print!įor Including Words in your Gelli® print! TIP: This technique will work best with fairly transparent and slow drying paint … to allow time for tracing. Rub gently to transfer the paint … then remove paper to pull your print. Use various texture tools in the wet paint to add another level of interest to your print. **The writing in the paint will be backwards (mirror-image). It can help if the swab is slightly dampened with a drop of water first. Trace over the lines using a cotton swab. Avoid opaque paints, as you want to be able to see your lettering under the plate ? This compensates for the left/right reversal in the printing process!Īpply a thin layer of paint onto the gel plate with a brayer. TIP: If you want your writing skewed to one side of the print, remember to place your Gelli® plate over the writing on the OPPOSITE side from where you want the writing to appear on the print. Place the clear substrate on top of the tracing paper and position your Gelli® plate over the writing. TIP: Roll a clean brayer over the plate to squeeze out air bubbles. Place your Gelli® plate on a clear protective substrate - such as Mylar, acetate, Plexiglass, DURA-LAR, glass, etc. Tape your tracing paper in place to your work surface. TIP: You can also add some guidelines for your print composition! They’re especially helpful when you print multiple layers.įlip the tracing paper over - so the writing appears backwards. Write a word (or words) on a piece of tracing paper with a Sharpie or other marker. Technique #1 - Just follow these easy steps! So, unless you’re proficient at mirror-image writing - OR, you’re willing to stick with X’s and O’s … and a few other letters with vertical bilateral symmetry ? - you’ll probably find the following step by step ideas helpful!īelow are two easy techniques for making your gel-printed words reader-friendly! These are subtractive methods - meaning paint will be removed to create the letters.
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Especially on art journal pages!īut here’s the tricky part… words and letters written or stamped in paint on a Gelli® plate will print in reverse! Words can add meaningful visual interest to your prints. Maybe you’d like to include words in a Gelli® print? Watch this video and see how to do it!