Gelli Printing on Fabric

so the nice folks at jelly art sent me this giant jelly plate okay let's see if we can just take a peek at how big it is so this is a 12-inch ruler so 12 inches ghost here and then woah so it is 20 inches long and twelve one two three four Wow so it is 12 by 16 it's huge and so because it's so big I thought this would be the perfect surface to actually print on some fabric because one of the issues sometimes when you're working with a jelly plate is that it's awfully small and your fabric is awfully large now you can see I haven't ironed this fabric at all it's totally what it is because I'm lazy but one of the nice things about printing is you don't actually really have to iron your fabric so I am using a tub full of fabric paints I don't think the brand of it matters but I like this personally I just like the so soft because it does keep your fabric so soft when you work with it so I've used this lot so I'm not sure how much paint left in these tubes but we'll give it a go run me a lot of paint to cover this plate so I'm gonna go ahead and get that paint out this paint I just realized has glitter in it so I'm not sure how that's going to work but I guess we'll find out I'm using a really big brayer because I want to be able to really cover the surface and you can see that this paint's going out and I like to of course mix my colors and this is a totally virgin jelly plate so I can see that there's a little bit of beading we're normally after you've used it quite a bit you don't see that kind of thing where the paint seems to almost like wick out okay the glitter is kind of interesting actually kind of interesting okay clean out my brayer and let's see I think for our first little print here I'm just going to do a little bit of scraping and you can use lots of different tools on your gelatin plate this is a catalyst tool jelly arts has a bunch of cool tool just a simple palette knife you can do all kinds of things with whatever you want you can draw shapes you can wipe away large sections if you wish you can really you know do what you want this is a plastic knife which has little teeth okay so I'm going to take my fabric and I'm going to carefully I don't want to drag this through at all because I just wanted to go fine on now the paint is coming through the plate can you see it on my hands so not through that it's coming through the fabric so I'm just gonna use a piece of jelly paper to go ahead and one of the nice things actually about the paint coming through the fabric is that I can see where I pushed enough but can you see how I also worked kind of from the center outwards and that's because that fabric wasn't ironed and so I want to make sure that I'm kind of ironing hand ironing it or ironing it with the wet paint so let's see what we've got haha I will show this to you in more detail but I want to see if I can get a ghost French so I'm gonna take a clean piece of fabric and see if what I can get off of the remaining paint here it should be a much finger print so again and now the paint is not coming through the fabric one of the tools that I sometimes use is this as a baron which is used in stamping or printmaking but I find it's a really great tool to go across the top obviously of things you could also use your brayer you can also use your hands sometimes you just want to peel and check let's see if that's already dried and that's why I can't get it off which is a possibility okay so I got some kind of a ghost and I will probably over print on this but you can see what the ghost looks like but you can also see what the first primary print looks like and I think the level of detail is amazing look at that plastic knife such cool prints so I'm gonna set this aside to dry and I'm gonna print the rest of my fabric and see what happens [Music] this fabric dry and I think it's really cool and because it's fabric paint it's not stiff or hard or crunchy or anything it still feels like fabric which is so nice I think this is one of my favorite patterns just scratching away sort of in an abstract style and I think cutting this fabric up into pieces and making some cool patchwork key things you can see what a small piece looks like is gonna be super cool this piece was the ghost printing piece which you can see has lots of different layers underneath and then at the end I put on this kind of blue black thing with squares or voids in it so you can kind of see the layers through it which is kind of neat this one again very cool I love the way the plastic fork gives this kind of pattern to it but again this is one that's gonna be you could actually stitch this as a whole cloth quilt I think but you could also just use a portion of it let's say if you made a patchwork where you had this this I mean the nice thing about basically hand painting or hand dyeing your fabric is that you just have all these really custom fabrics and yet because the base of all of these fabrics is the same they kind of go together right because they all have that yellow polka dot in the base but look at what a cool composition that already is we can actually just take this one too let's add in a fourth quadrant this is the one that was the ghost prints and stuff and now Ashley let's put that here I feel like and you already have the start of something cool okay so this one was very tone on tone for a while it was kind of just these red ish sort of plus signs and then I added it's a ghost of the blue one over so it's a little more interesting and for me there are parts of it that are more interesting you can always go back and add more by the way especially when it's dry but I think that's a really just cool piece of fabric like if that was a fat quarter I'd be excited and I would buy it here is one that again has a really interesting shape and sort of some of the and stuff like that the paint at the edge of the plate tends to drive more quickly or I tend to apply less paint or something like that so I do find that the edges are softer which I don't mind because actually so I think people feel different ways about it but I like the idea of being able to use like this see if I could isolate this a little bit more like this strip of fabric where the paint is kind of fading in and out of it and it feels softer I think that's kind of nice whereas other people want to have just you know only something that has a clean and clear paint line like that so just totally personal preference and then this is actually the first one we did and you can see I had mentioned that a new plate will do a little bit of beading and this is the only one that has that beading in it but it's actually really cool I wish I could figure out how to do this on purpose right it almost looks like an organic shape of some kind but yeah so super easy and I love how you can use the big plate to print on these are sort of fat quarter sized pieces of fabric but you could really do yardage and do some production printing because that thing is giant and it works just like a jelly plate that's you know 2 inches or jelly plate that's 20 inches they're all the same thing and you can really have some cool fun with it so I hope you will try printing on some fabric with your giant jelly plate it's really fun and easy

Channel: Balzer Designs

Views: 17,566

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Keywords: balzer designs, julie fei-fan balzer, art, craft, gelli plate, gelli print, printing on fabric, monoprinting

Id: YBZBmsMNKT4

Length: 9min 49sec (589 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 15 2019