Pulling monoprints today for future art projects.

Here it is laid out on the gelliplate:

I love using my gelliplate as it is in many ways a very portable printing press. And with my Summer studio now so very hot due to our closing off some windows, I find myself using it more and more. In the midst of a Spring project that had to be stopped as we lost our handyman, My Summer studio's cross breezes from the ocean are now gone and my tiny window air conditioner can not keep up as the ceilings are too high. So, it's the gelliplate and me in the garden then.

I love gardening and in many ways consider planting and making borders and beds creating art and your paint and tools are plants and foliage.

So, it stands to reason that I am inspired to bring in these beauties to end up in printmaking and eventually lead to inspiration in larger paintings and drawings.

And here is a vision in blue. I like to ink part of the plate with paper blocking a bit, to keep it clean. Then I impress the ink with the cut flowers/leaves/succlents and then take their ghost or stamp onto the clean side.

In the first shared print I left the flowers and articles on the gelliplate whilst placing the paper over it, giving it first a print with negative space, as this:

Then the second or ghost print is pulled from the gelliplate and before I do that (without adding more ink) I take the flowers off and replace a couple turning their inked sides towards where the paper where hit, thus getting that print.

The gelliplate is amazing at getting fine detail on petals, sepals, leaves and seedheads.

Sometimes I will pull the first print such as this in yellow (as I did in the video)

And then set up the gelliplate with a second colour and impression from flowerheads and print again on the same paper, giving it layers in colour and form.

Here is a version in blue.

You can really see the impressions it makes. And I love blue and white together, it reminds me of the china I collect.

These monoprints will be saved digitally and used in some future projects many times.

I'll share next what I intend to do with them. As well as sometimes they will be used to print over with screenprinted images or such making 1/1 monoprints as originals. Thus I can use the elements many times over before the final print making it a stand alone piece of signed art as well.

I love how the digital world allows we artist to now make such pieces and if we wish to capture our layers to use in other things, we have that option. In the old days if we like a layer but new we were painting more over it, we simply had to either take a photo to look at and recall it or just let in live in our memory as we painted over it.

I hope you have a moment to play and experiment in whatever your art form is today. The joy of mixing passions, such as gardening and printmaking for me, is really an important part of enjoying Life, I think. So, I hope you get to experience that in some way today.

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Playing in the studio with succulents and plants from the Garden. Gelliplate fun prints.

Pulling monoprints today for future art projects.

The gelliplate is amazing at getting fine detail on petals, sepals, leaves and seedheads.

These monoprints will be saved digitally and used in some future projects many times.