Fun with Gelli Plate Prints - Sabine Ickler, Katrin Klink

Fun with Gelli Plate Prints

Easy Mixed-Media Printmaking
Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2025
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80092-321-8 (ISBN)
23,80 inkl. MwSt
Discover the colourful world of gelli plate printing and create unique designs using this super-simple technique! 





Use your prints to transform a range of items into bespoke pieces of art - from bags, bunting and lampshades, to wall art and even furniture.



The beauty of gelli plate printing is its simplicity - it's easy to get started, quick to clean up after use, and suitable for painting enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. Using a gelli plate as a base - readily available to buy, or made from gelatine using the recipe in the book - Katrin Klink and Sabine Ickler show you how to create your own striking monoprinted designs. Use your chosen paint to dab, stamp or stencil your designs, and make use of everyday household items, such as kitchen utensils or vegetables, as well as store-bought stamps, to create an infinite number of patterns and textures with minimal equipment and maximum impact.



You can print your designs onto a variety of surfaces or objects, including paper, fabrics, metal and wood - even onto curved and uneven surfaces - giving you enormous scope to create your own collection of vibrant designs, perfect to decorate or use in your home, or to give as wonderful personalized gifts.



Inside this practical, colourful book you will find:





A guide to all the tools and materials you need clearly explained.
A broad range of techniques, with full, beginner-friendly guidance.
An explanation of colour theory to put into practice within your own designs.
19 achievable projects, together with many more inspirational variations and customizable ideas for creating your own uniquely printed pieces.
Colourful photos to inspire your gelli plate printing journey!

Katrin Klink is an illustrator and graphic designer, and loves everything to do with patterns. She became passionate about printing during her studies at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart. She's been a big fan of gelli printing since her first attempts, for both the experimental approach and the opportunity to develop pattern designs, as well as making very specific projects. Katrin loves the effective results gelli print plates create, all with ease and minimal equipment.  Sabine Ickler loves creating new things and expressing her feelings for colours and shapes in her work. She is a graphic designer and mixed-media artist. Inspired by large, bright patterns from the seventies during her childhood, she now uses those bold colours – as vintage patterns or interpreted in a modern way – for projects such as covers for sketchbooks or travel diaries. Sabine enjoys how gelli printing offers the exciting opportunity to quickly and easily print her own patterns on paper, fabric and even on suitcases or furniture. Find her @herzfrisch on Instagram.

Introduction 6



Materials, paints & techniques



MATERIALS

The Gelli Plate 12

Paints 14

Paper and Fabric 16

Tools 18

Stamps 20



COLOURS

Understanding and Mixing Colours – The Colour Palette 24

The Colour Wheel 25

Colour Gradations 26

Saturation 27

Complementary Colours 28

Colours Around Us 29

Developing Your Own Colour Combinations 30



PRINTING

Printing with Simple Household Objects 34

Printing Simple Shapes 36

Multicolour Printing 38

Ghost Prints 40



STENCILS & STAMPS

The Grunge Effect 44

Potato Printing 48

Sketchbook with Potato Printing 50

Fabric Collection and Yellow Bag 52

Foam Rubber Stamps 54

Eraser Stamps 56

Japanese Fabric Bags 58



RESIST PRINTING

Wax Resist Technique 62

Motif Printing with Magazines 64



WATERCOLOURS

Using Watercolours 72



FREESTYLE

Printing Freestyle Patterns 76

Combining with Other Materials 78

Printing on Tissue Paper 79

Printing Large Surfaces or Joins 80

Printing Aprons 82

Printing Mandalas  84



From Print to Design – A Whole New World of Gelli Printing 90



Projects



Mini Book 96

Travel Bags 98

Gardening Gloves 104

Japanese Pouch 105

Cans, Boxes, and Bowls 106

Covering Objects with Tyvek® 108

Art Wall 110

Geometric Shapes 112

3D Geometric Shapes 114

Lampshades 116

Covering with Printed Tissue Paper 117

Shopping Bag 120

Bunting 121

Zipped Bag 122

Collage of Various Prints 124

Kimono 126

Lunch Bag 128

Bag with Rings 130

Oven Gloves 131



APPENDIX

Templates 134

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.4.2025
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, color
Verlagsort Tunbridge Wells
Sprache englisch
Maße 204 x 260 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Malen / Zeichnen
ISBN-10 1-80092-321-X / 180092321X
ISBN-13 978-1-80092-321-8 / 9781800923218
Zustand Neuware
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