Gelli Printing is very versatile and so much fun to do! Start with blank piece of paper, a previously gel printed paper, or a printed paper background. Brayer a small amount of paint onto the gelli plate. Place stencils or make texture marks with found objects and press your paper onto the gel plate. Pull the paper off of the plate! Note that using different types of papers to print on will change your results in interesting ways. Using nature items like leaves, flowers and grasses with a Gelli plate is a favorite way of mine to print.

 

Gelli Printing with Leaves

A class at Selby Gardens in Sarasota, FL with JoAnn Campisi. We learned how to monoprint with a Gelli Plate! This class concentrated on using paint, ink, leaves, flowers, stencils and texture making items.

 

The prints below were created in a class at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. The Gelli Plates can be purchased at Gelli Arts.com. Find a large collection of how-to videos on YouTube. Click any photo for full size and scroll through all the photos easily by swiping or using the side arrows.

View some of these prints in a small scrap journal:

 

A second Journal created with nature prints done on a Gelli Plate is linked below.