Gelli Plate Techniques Using Repurposed Items and Leaves

in today's video we're going to be using repurposed items along with eucalyptus leaves to make beautiful collage papers that you can use in your paintings use in your journals or wherever else you feel the need for some really intriguing pattern and color my name is vicky reed with paint by heart and let's get started i've got a little distraction but it should clear shortly all right so today i've got my 8 by 10 gel press plate i've got a four inch brayer i've got a six inch brayer here i've got some base papers that i've already printed up but we'll do a couple just so you can see i've got this lipstick holder that i found at the dollar store um a trivet which i've cut the edges off a paper towel roll which has twine wrapped around it and some bubble wrap and of course the eucalyptus leaves so uh today we're gonna work from dark to light so i'm gonna put out some real nice dark i'm not gonna do too many base layers for you because i i like the i want to see the results of course who doesn't so i'm putting out some color and i will be sure and leave you the um all the details this is ultramarine blue a little bit of black and threaquinone blue and we'll start with that so really nice deep oh and some phthalo blue i can see it in there so we'll start with this and just get a base coat and today i'm working on the rice paper but certainly you can use anything you like i've just discovered a lot of old architectural renderings which are making fantastic base sheets all right so there's one and we'll do one purple and then we'll get started with the pattern this is a little different this is a dilutions pain i don't usually use it but i want really cool intrigue in my purple so i'm adding that and dioxazine purple permanent violet dark and a little bit of black carbon black all right there's the purple and i'm gonna do one green um which we may not leave in because i want to limit the length of the video so that y'all don't get bored uh i could go on and on with this forever because it's just so much fun all right so that was phthalo turquoise and some quinacridone green gold and some phthalo green blue shade all right and this is certainly enough to get started especially with all these other ones that i have ready all right there you go that's pretty all right so next layer um i'm gonna move dark to light so i'm going to do a sort of an interim layer here this is the iridescent bright gold some quinacridone nickel azo gold and a little bit of um we'll do titanium white these are all 90 gold and fluid acrylics all right so we'll go right back into the green one here and for this first print let's go with the paper towel roll we can use some of the trivet as well but this is really fun i really like this i've been looking for a sort of a patterned line thing and if you want you can go both directions and we'll put this over the green so that's just twine around a paper towel roll and that's layer one all right so we'll go into the blue one next actually that's layer two that's patterned layer one but it's layer two ah that was some of the dilutions it's very close to teal and titanium white a little bit of titan buff have to be careful not to put out too much paint because it's not good when it's too squishy that's looking good so we'll use this one next this thing is super cool i'm so excited to find it and we'll just stamp this around on here and do the second layer on this blue one here wow love this this is really pretty all right i'll just pick that up and then for this one let's do the little bit of let's combine the bubble wrap and the trivet um let's see let's get a little bit of titanium white go back in with the permanent violet dark and okay so this is amazon um bubble wrap it's a different shape and it makes a really cool pattern we'll do we'll mix it up with the trivet and this bubble wrap all right i want to go back in because i can't see the bubble wrap and it's such a fun shape so let's get that one more time put a little gold in there i'll use this side now there it is it's almost like little seashells okay so we've got three interesting bases here you could do one more let's do it on this real deep blue green this is the teal a little bit of titanium white it's getting sloppy around the edges there and this time let's go for a combination of the lipstick holder and the the trivet [Music] just love this hexagon shape oh my gosh so pretty just love that not super fun all right so now let's whip out our uh eucalyptus leaves here and uh let's see which one should we go with first let's do the green one first and we'll get so i'm going with green gold i want to go way light on this one green gold a little bit of the iridescent bright gold some of the dilutions and then white yes just a tiny bit so let's see how do i want to do this let's go this way i just picked these up at trader joe's today these are such nice big [Music] leaves whoops that one flipped over it's all right i can tame it i think that's good and we'll lay this down on top of here and use the six inch sprayer wow so fun all right and then we can pick up the ghost print on a piece let's see let's put it on i got this dark green let's put it on here wow can you see that that's super fun too all right so uh let me just do one more here let's work on this one i think this is so pretty we'll use the um turquoise phthalo that was probably too much white and a little bit of this yellow actually i want to go with gold that out that's not going to work on here it's too similar so let's grab this darker one we could just do that and add more of this because it's not in the other design and we'll put it on here whoa oh so pretty very happy with that one okay and we've got a little ghosty here that we might want to pick up actually i'm going to try it right over this purple what the heck one more guys one more because i want to put i want to use this one that's pretty and i'll use it as a base for something else now last one [Music] i think i'm going to use some yellow i want this to be really bright over this one primary yellow okay this is going to work great it's always uh it's always an experiment with the gel press plate it's so fun all right let's try it a different way i'm a little bit stuck in my routine there try that over more of it why not okay here we go all right i i love these it's vicki reed with paint by heart thanks for watching get creative all right see you next time

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Length: 13min 58sec (838 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 05 2021