Gel Printing on Fabric

[Music] hello i'm theresa thank you for joining me here today um i get asked quite regularly um with my gel printing videos can we do this on fabric and i always answer yes i have done one or two projects in the past um i've done a question i've printed on fabric and created a face mask um but i thought it was perhaps time that i just revisited this and and did some printing on some different types of fabric just to show you how simple it is i've taken three different types of fabric a selection of stencils some acrylic paints and some fabric medium and i've created these prints today and i'm going to show you how to do it how simple it is and then next week i shall be back and show you a project using the fabrics that we have printed today but i'm going to move this out of the way get set up and i shall be about to show you how it's done i'm going to begin as usual by giving you a quick rundown of the products i'm using today this is my 8 by 10 inch gel printing plate my jelly arts brand gel printing plate you can use a smaller size if you have one um seven by five or six by six would probably be all right any smaller than that and unless you're going to print multiple times onto a larger piece of fabric um you may struggle to get a large enough area for what we're going to make with them our finished fabric pieces so i'm using my 8 by 10 inch i know that's going to be perfect for what i want to do i've cut some pieces of fabric and i've cut them approximately the size um that my plate is just you know then they're not spot on they're a little bit wonky but that's absolutely fine and i'm trying three different types of fabric today just to show you um the different effects that you will get so we've got this this is a denim a lightweight denim just to show you that if you don't have a white um fabric you can print on something with color but obviously that may affect the color of the paint unless your paint is very opaque i have some white canvas here um obviously this this should be really nice for printing on has a little bit of a texture so maybe some of that might come through in the finished print we don't know but we've got that um i've got two pieces of that i've cut two pieces of the denim and my third piece third type of fabric that i'm using today is this unbleached i have a cotton calico so it's quite a smooth finish and it's a nice natural cream color so we can use that and again i've cut two pieces approximately the size of my plate i'm going to be using regular acrylic paint and mixing it with a fabric medium and if you've got fabric paint use that that's absolutely fine but if you don't own any fabric paint rather than having to go out and buy a range of colors of fabric paints buy a bottle of fabric painting medium and mix it with your existing acrylic colors that way you know you've got lots of different colors at your fingertips for the price of just one bottle of something now this one is the deco art americana brand and the instructions on the backs that say to mix the paint um two to one with the medium i've used this before i know it works um the project that i'm going to be making with the finished prints isn't going to have to go into the washing machine but by using a fabric medium you know it's not going to flake off you know it's going to adhere well to the fabric um so i am going to be mixing with this if you don't want to buy this if all you've got is just acrylic paint you can still print on your fabric but i can't sort of say what the longevity of that will be as to whether it will wear off rub off i don't know using a fabric painting medium means it's going to stay put so i've got two different types of paint that i'm going to use today on my white canvas and my cream cotton calico i'm going to be using the decor media fluid acrylics i have hansa yellow light phthalo turquoise and blue green light i'm going to use those three colors on one of them on another one i am going to use sap green quinacridone gold and dairylight yellow and on the denim just because the fluid acrylics can be a little translucent a little transparent by very by their nature that they are thinner and i'm going to be mixing them with a fabric medium i'm going to use the dina wakeley acrylic paints these are a much more heavy bodied paint so i've got magenta eggplant and peacock and i'm going to try those on the denim with the expectancy that they'll give me more of a solid color it's the same reason that i use them on the gift wrap project that i did last week and just that they're just a little bit thicker and heavier bodied to mix my paint and fabric medium i've got just this is a piece of acrylic um that i keep i use it like a palette i've got a palette knife i'm going to just put a bit on here and mix it on there and then i can use my brayer and brayer it directly onto my plate and i'm using the speedball rubber brayer today and other than that i have a selection of assorted stencils just to create my patterning use whatever you want to use for the mark making for the layering for the patterning but right now it's time to get started so i'm going to begin by mixing my paint um as it's instructed on here two to one with the medium if you've got a different brand follow the instructions so that it will [Music] work [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] and here are the finished prints that we've created today there are some lessons to be learned um i would say on this denim the color choices are important uh the bright the pink is showing up really nicely also that's um eggplant color as well that deep purple the turquoise the dots have shown up well on this one but when i did this other print although the pink and the purple are showing well the turquoise that was left on the plate for the second pull was very little paint drying quite quickly so it hasn't transferred i can sort of make it out here but it is not so obvious possibility of trying paler brighter colors to see how they would work maybe a off-white or a white or a bright yellow or something that might have been a better choice that being said usable areas on both of these and i do like the effect um that i've got in this area particularly on the denim i'm really really pleased with the prints that i did on the natural cotton calico i used the same stencil twice to create a positive and negative and i got this really quite nice offset effect because i wasn't too fussed about lining it up accurately um so really really happy with this i actually quite like even here where the paint had beaded up a bit on the plate that that's transferred this cotton calico obviously a really good surface for printing it's nice and crisp lots of detail there so very happy with that one also very happy with the other one that i got as well so really looking forward to using those now on the cotton canvas mixed results i would say it takes the paint very well i also like the fact that we can still see the texture in the fabric there what i will say is that my blue layer that i did the second layer and was very thin layer of paint and it dried very quickly on that plate so although you can see here the dots they've they show up quite well there they're not showing up too well on this side and indeed when i came to do the second poll here very little of the blue actually lifted because it was almost dry on the plate that's why i grabbed another color and i grabbed this magenta but again i put a very thin layer on and we've got some dots on here but again very little pain actually came up so advice there make sure we've got plenty of paint on the plate i don't know whether this is an effect of the fabric medium or whether it's an effect for the canvas or combination of both but definitely the layers of paint that i did that were a little bit thicker have transferred much better than those two quite thin layers that being said i'm really happy with what i've got here and again this one will be it's much more subtle there are definitely usable areas there um there's never a wasted print i could indeed if i ever wasn't happy create another print on top of this but i'm going to leave them as they are so that's where i'm going to leave it for today you can go away go experiment with your paint your stencils your different fabrics that you've got but i shall be back next week for part two and i will be using these prints um enough what i hope you will find is a fun um project so for now that's all if you enjoyed this please leave me a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and i shall see you all next week with part two but for now that's all [Music] bye [Music] you

Channel: Teresa Morgan

Views: 3,641

Rating: 4.9682541 out of 5

Keywords: gelli arts, gelli printing, monoprinting, printing techniques, fabric art, textile print

Id: HfuVnovpwPQ

Length: 14min 55sec (895 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021