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| Rubbing paint off Gelli Plate onto paper |
Anyone who has tried gelli printing with the new gelli plates from Gelli Arts has fallen in love with the technique. The ability (for even those who don't feel very artistic) to make monoprints that are layered and painterly is addicting.
So to spread the love I got together with my good friend's two creative granddaughters who love art. We laid out the brand new gelli plate, new tubes of colorful paint, new brayers (small rollers for spreading paint) and lots of paper and paper towels on one of their first days off for summer vacation.
It turned out to be a really special day. I felt like I was at summer camp. The girls, ages 7 and 4, took to the painting right away, and then ran away with it. I was so impressed with the color choices they made, having originally thought that they would stick with the pastel paints. I'm not sure why I thought that, but they soon started getting out the neon and the black paints and doing awesome things with them.
What a great way to spend a morning!
Here are some samples of their work:
Making sure the paper is covered with paint from plate underneath
Spreading the paint with a brayer
Pulling a print from the Gelli Plate
A neon butterfly
A psychedelic print from the Gelli Plate
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