Exploring Hand Printing Beyond the Gelli Plate
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- If you’ve explored hand printing at home, chances are you’ve worked with a gel plate. It’s a great tool-but did you know it’s not the only option? In fact, printing on a harder surface, as I do, can open up entirely new creative possibilities.
In this video, I’ll share the pros and cons of working without a gel plate and how it can deepen your printmaking practice.
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I have a huge smile seeing this, Ruth. I found a metre long piece of thin/flexible plastic on my walk yesterday. It is likely a cover from a sign, blown off in storm Eowyn. Of course, I bagged it to use for printing 😃👍
Informative video, and you gave me some ideas to try with my glass and plexiglass monoprinting plates.
Jelly plates, or commercially hectography, has been around since the mid 1800s anw was still used for commercial into 1960s. Primarily, it was used to reproduce line work and text in aniline based inks, and was replaced by mimeography and solvent duplicators. Hand poured trays continued to be fairly common throughout the 1970s and into the more the more recent resurgence.
As a happy medium, instead of a gel plate, you can use a silicone sheet, which gives the transfer qualities of a gel plate with the firmer surface of the tabletop.
Great stuff Ruth. I’ve always liked the idea of printing but presses are so expensive, you have shown us over the years the potential to produce lovely prints without a press.Thank you
Good ideas here. Printing experiments are so much fun. But how do you clean plastic and aluminum plates without scratching and without using mass anounts of thinner? Thanks
So great again, Ruth! This has given me some really practical ideas of ways I can make it work.🙂
It’s really inspiring and informative !! I wanted to try Gelli printing, but now I can try hand printing with what I have. Thank you 😊
Brilliant ❤
Thx!
Thank you, this is very helpful.
Great ideas! Thank you. What kind of ink are you using?
So cool. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely ideas, can you do this with watercolors?
Love it!!!
Love!
Wow 😮😮😮😮
Cheers 🤟
What ink do you use?
Could I get the link pleease
@@christinewebster3384 hi Christine, all the links are in the description.
Very interesting. Unfortunately, I had trouble catching all you said due to the speed of your talking.
You can slow the speed in the settings by clicking on the cog ⚙️ icon.
Yes great setting! I use it to speed up the video if I want things to move faster, and slow it down if they talk too fast for me to keep up. 😊
Very interesting video, and I could understand you just fine.