Love this! Never in a million years would I have thought to use watercolors, but you are a genius! One of my favorite 'looks' on a Gelli print so far! THANK YOU!!
Thanks for the washing-up liquid tip; I have just bought a gelli plate, but not yet used it, as I don't have acrylic paints, but I do have watercolours. I didn't want to buy yet more stuff - I can't move for accumulated crafting kit - but didn't know if watercolours could work as well. I shall try this, as I feel more confident having seen the video. Chris.
Great technique! When you add the soap 1st, and print dries, can you use print in mixed media, adding other wet layers on it without it smearing or getting soapy?
Hi! Watercolours aren't permanent and will always smear when you add other wet layers to it. The dish soap doesn't change this. If you want to work on top of these prints without re-activating the pigments, you will need to fixate the print first. One way to do that is to Gelli print a thin layer of gel medium on top. As for the soapy part: I have experimented with more watercolour, felt tip pens and black fineliners on top of my dry prints and I haven't detected any soapiness. The prints (re-)acted just like any other watercolour background would! Have fun trying the technique!
Besides the scraping technique, I don’t see the purpose of doing the gel plate thing because you get the same results just making them directly on the paper if done correctly.
Love this! Never in a million years would I have thought to use watercolors, but you are a genius! One of my favorite 'looks' on a Gelli print so far! THANK YOU!!
Thank you so much Maryann!
Brilliant!! I am so much more a watercolour rather than an acrylics person so this brings a whole new chapter of delight with my gelli plate!
Thanks! Have fun Gelli printing with your watercolours!
Very helpful video. I really like the marbling effect that you can get using watercolors. Thanks for the new perspective
Fantastic technique and love the idea to use the soap to control the watercolors!!
Thank you Julie!
Great prints! Love all your Gelli Printing experiments. Thank you.
Thanks for the washing-up liquid tip; I have just bought a gelli plate, but not yet used it, as I don't have acrylic paints, but I do have watercolours. I didn't want to buy yet more stuff - I can't move for accumulated crafting kit - but didn't know if watercolours could work as well. I shall try this, as I feel more confident having seen the video.
Chris.
COOL, Man! LOL Love the '60s background music, too. Definitely want to try this... Thank You and Happy New Year!!!
Very pretty results! Thank you for inspiring us to create using other mediums besides acrylic paint!
Thanks!
Beautiful. I got my plate for Mother’s Day, today
Awesome. I will be doing this with my gelli pad!!
Excellent idea - - so many possibilities. TFS
Thanks for this demo- will definitely try this!
I never thought of using watercolor on my gelli plate! Thanks for sharing a great idea -- I'm going to try my Twinkling H2Os on my plate.
Awesome! Have fun!
Cool! I've been wanting to try this for a while. Now I've seen your video, I'll definitely have a go!
Have fun!
I love this with the watercolour going to definitely try this technique thanks
Yippee! Going to use dush soap next
always love to learn new things to do on my Gelli plate - thank you : )
Index cards work well for this. And you can salt the paint before putting the paper down.
I love my Gelli!
We're happy to hear that Lynn!
Super. Vous en avez de bonnes idées.
This will be so pretty in my journal😊thank you
I'm sure of it! Have fun Gelli printing!
Love this. Thanks
Thanks Patricia!
Fantastic!
Love learning anything new I can do with my gelli plate. Tfs
I'm happy to read that! Have fun Gelli printing Terri!
What lovely affects
Thanks Kathy!
Great technique! When you add the soap 1st, and print dries, can you use print in mixed media, adding other wet layers on it without it smearing or getting soapy?
Hi!
Watercolours aren't permanent and will always smear when you add other wet layers to it. The dish soap doesn't change this.
If you want to work on top of these prints without re-activating the pigments, you will need to fixate the print first. One way to do that is to Gelli print a thin layer of gel medium on top.
As for the soapy part: I have experimented with more watercolour, felt tip pens and black fineliners on top of my dry prints and I haven't detected any soapiness. The prints (re-)acted just like any other watercolour background would!
Have fun trying the technique!
Wow! I must try this with my Twinkling H2Os!!! TFS!
Have fun playing with those!
Pretty prints
Where do you find that particular graph paper!!! What a great idea to us under the Gelli plate
Hi Nancy, It's not paper, it's an EK Success Glass Cutting Mat! Super handy for Gelli printing!
Beautiful technique. But The white lettering on the white background makes it hard to read the instructions
Nice, I also have some Afwasmiddel at home :D
TFS...great idea!
Thank you!
good stuff my sweet!
Besides the scraping technique, I don’t see the purpose of doing the gel plate thing because you get the same results just making them directly on the paper if done correctly.