BOTANICAL GEL PRINTING
March 18th – April 12th
$195
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Please join me for a crash course in collage to start the new year!
Registration Now Open!
Course Dates: March 18th – April 12th
Join me for a month of botanical gel printing
We’ll start with the basics to get you thinking about color combinations and layering, then move to playing with leaves and layers. Lesson by lesson we will progress through grasses, Spanish moss, feathers, and more. I love gel printing ... and more than that, I love to share my skills. Many of the techniques are more accessible than people realize, I aim to bring different printmaking concepts within easy reach for anyone wanting to learn.
Lessons will publish on Mondays and Fridays, there will be two Lessons per week for a total of eight lessons. Each lesson contains multiple videos ranging in length from 10 to 25 minutes.
You will have the opportunity to ask questions in the Discussions Tab and I will post a reply typically within 24 hours. I will be active in the Discussion Tab from March 18th to April 12th, after that you may view and re-view the material at your own pace indefinitely. Please post your work in our private Facebook Group!
Monday April 8th we will gather together via Zoom for a demo and Q&A. This will be a time to bring all of your questions. (Don’t worry if you need to miss the live component; it will be recorded.)
I will be in the virtual classroom from March 18th to April 12th for commentary
Class Includes Unlimited Access, Online Community, Seven Video Lessons, digital downloads, and More!
Lesson 1 – Monday, March 18
Lesson 2 – Friday, March 22
Lesson 3 – Monday, March 25
Lesson 4 – Friday, March 29
Lesson 5 – Monday, April 1
Lesson 6 – Friday, April 5
Lesson 7 – Monday, April 8
Lesson 8 – LIVE ZOOM CALL Friday, April 12, 3:00PM-4:30PM Pacific Time
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Workshop Itinerary:
Lesson One - Tools and Materials; learn what we are using in this course and why. Color, combinations, transparency, paint brands.
Lesson Two - Printing Basics; collect plant material, learn how to use the registration tool, prints and ghost prints, white and light elements
Lesson Three - Gel Printed Backgrounds; creating layered prints to serve as a base for botanical overlays
Lesson Four - Botanical Overlays; printing over layered backgrounds, applying prints on tissue to backgrounds, hand embellishing tissue layers
Lesson Five - Hand Embellishing; incorporating foam stamps, mark making, embelishing
Lesson Six - Experimenting with Alternate Materials; layering with Spanish moss, feathers, twine
Lesson Seven - How to Display Your Prints; priming wood panels, cropping prints, adhering to panels or in journals
Lesson Eight– ZOOM Call Q&A about course techniques
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Private Facebook Group:
Learning in any of my workshops goes both ways, we learn from each other as much as you learn from me. The Facebook group community also helps to make the whole experience special. I hope you can join me!
cancellation/refund policy: sorry, no refunds
Supply List:
in the interest of being prepared with supplies as soon as possible
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8x10 Gel Plate and optional gel plate storage tin
Speedball Deluxe Brayers: 6-inch and 2-inch
Golden Fluid Acrylics Set is a great deal for the price but some of the colors might not be your favorites. If you decide to start with this set, you can make it work!
Some suggested colors if you are buying individual paints:
Titan Green Pale or Titan Buff
Green Gold
Paynes Gray
Indian Yellow
Manganese Blue
Quinacridone Magenta
Van Dyke Brown
Optional: A-4 Mixed Media Background Rice Papers,
my designs from Joggles for a quick mixed media background
Optional: Joggles Postage Stamps for adding to mixed media backgrounds
Optional: Joggles Dictionary Pages for creating mixed media backgrounds
Optional: Posca PC-1MR fine point white pen for cropping your prints
Optional: Princeton Catalyst Wedge for smoothing prints flat when mounting
Liquitex Gloss Gel Medium for adhering leaf prints to panels and mixed media backgrounds
Princeton Catalyst Short Handle Filbert Brush my preferred glue brush
Spanish Moss this offers so many wonderful organic shapes and lines. One bag goes a LONG way!
Variety of Craft Feathers this is a great set as it includes multiple sizes and shapes
Peacock Feathers who can resist peacocks? these create such unique impressions
Scotch Heavy Duty Packing Tape to clean the dried paint from your plate before putting it away
Water Wipes, a biodegradable all natural alternative to baby wipes
Alcohol Wipes will take dried paint from the registration tool if you want to keep it pristine!
Low tack Artists Tape or Purple Delicate Surface Painters Tape
The Print Perfect! Registration Tool
NOTE: It is not essential to use a the registration tool for this process, however it is super helpful. You can still achieve close or similar registered results by hinging your paper to your work surface.
Optional: Botanical Foam Stamps I recently created a line of Long Stemmed Botanical Foam Stamp designs for Joggles that you may enjoy adding to some of your prints. I used Archival Ink Pads in my demo video. Pebble Beach, Goldenrod, and Monarch Orange.
For Displaying Your Prints:
Joggles Print Cropping Tools
For easy visual cropping of your prints to mount to wood panels with .125 overhang
Art Alternatives Cradled Wood Panels All Sizes I like a square format for my prints and the idea of hanging them in a grouping like a grid, but that doesn't mean you can't mount your prints to various other sizes that divide out of an 8x10 print! These are easy to hang without framing, if you want to display your finished prints as art.
Art Alternatives 6x6 Cradled Wood Panels
Art Alternatives 8x8 Cradled Wood Panels
Joggles 10x10 Disc Bound Journal