Exploring Unconventional Gelli Printing Techniques for Crafting Atmospheric Backgrounds

1. Introduction: Welcome to the studio. It's froyle here. I'm so glad you've joined me. I've been painting and exhibiting for 30 years. And what I'm most passionate about is giving you and experience of creating an unleashing your creativity. I've been running, developing creativity workshops in-person and online for many, many years. And what I have found is everybody is creative and with a few simple Techniques, little bit of encouragement, some coaching. You can create anything. You can produce absolutely beautiful artworks, even if it's your very first time, even if you're a brand new beginner or Virgin artist, you can create beautiful paintings. Creating Art can be a life-changing experience as you connect with your own creativity and unleash your creative expression. There's just something so validating about creating something from the core of who you are is a person and saying that materialize on the paper in front of you. In this Art class, we're going on a creative journey using unconventional techniques on the jelly play to create beautiful atmospheric backgrounds and spectacular mono prints. I'm so excited about it because it's going to be so experimental, it's going to be so PFK-1 and your creativity is going to Seoul with the courage and excitement of creating these beautiful prints. Now, jelly printing is a really easy application and it's a whole lot of PFK-1. It creates a lot of mono prints at one time. And you're going to be so amazed at how unique, special your prints are going to be. I'll be right there with you, run alongside you as we experiment using acrylic paints, alcohol inks, spray inks, and a combination of all of these mediums that don't usually go together. It could be a little messy, but it will be a whole lot of fonts as you gain courage to stretch your artistic expression and experiment with unusual combinations of mediums. You'll learn how to create prints using Multiple Layers, adding texture with different inks and how to enhance your app with Stamps and Stencils. I'll also be teaching you how to add laser copy to your gel prints to create unique and stunning works a lot. You can immediately use the skills to create beautiful and unique Abstract artworks. And by the end of the class, you will have quite a few prints ready to use for collage to put into other projects. Or you may even have some ready and finished to frame. You'd be amazed at how beautiful your prints are going to be. This class is suitable for students of all skill levels. Anyone wanting to explore the fabulous jelly Printing Techniques, It's perfect for beginners because I will lead you step-by-step through each technique, creating each layer. And we're going to be learning together as we experiment with these different mediums on the gel plate. These techniques are simple while producing effective creative expression. And there's so much more opportunity for developing these techniques in your own artistic style. This could be a launch plate for you to open up a whole new door of creative opportunities. I'm really excited to work with you on these projects I let together and materials and let's make Art 2. Getting Started: I'm so glad you're here and I'm so excited for this class. It's going to be very experimental. You and I are going on an adventure. We're going to be using acrylic paint, some alcohol inks, some isopropyl alcohol to create an impact with the acrylic paint. We might even use some acrylic inks as well. We're going to be creating atmospheric backgrounds, beautiful papers that we can use in our collage or mixed media projects. And I know it's going to be a lot of PFK-1 will be taking this adventure together as I'm creating on my jaw plate. I'm going to be trying different ideas for you to try. Some of them might Works, Hello, might not, but we have to be creative, adventurous and see what we can find. I know it's going to be a lot of fan and I know we're going to create some beautiful prints. So let's start with the basics. What aren't materials do you need? Well, first of all, you need a gel plate. So here's my by a joke like it's a new job plate isn't a beautiful, It's so nice and clean. Now, just know if you're using alcohol inks on your gelli plate, it will stain and it will leave marks. My beautiful gel Plate might not look so plain by the end of the day, but I'm okay with that. Right. So I have a brayer I roll-off sheet. I'm also a brush. We're going to be brushing a lot of the paint on today. We need a selection of acrylic paints. I've got some beautiful warm tones and some fabulous metallic paints. I'm also going to throw in a little bit of blue gray, but I will give you a full list of the Art Supply's. It'll be in the notes section of the class. So make sure you have a look at that. Also, I'll put some Amazon links onto the page in case you want to find exactly where I get my products from. Sometimes it just helps to click on a button. I also have some white, titanium white, some iridescent white, and some an bleached titanium. So I'm going to start with these colors. But as I said, this is quite experimental and it could change as we go along. But a full list will be in your notes if you want to see exactly the materials that I'm using now onto the paper. If I have some Japanese rice paper, which is this particular brand, I have some wet strength tissue, which is just a lot stronger than the regular tissue, are really love using this product. I also have some watercolor paper. This one is fairly cost efficient. I got it from stationary supply shop. That's the brand. Vague. What I like about this particular watercolor paper is incredible texture. You can see how it's got that texture map to the paper. I love it. It's really affordable. I'm surprised it's actually so good for being so affordable. It's only 190 GSM, So it's not superdense. But I really like it for this kind of gelli printing where we're taking background prints, a mark-making, and exploring. Because you want to use paper that you're not so precious about, otherwise you won't allow yourself to experiment. I also have some of this watercolor paper. It's a lot stronger. It's a 300 gram. So it's just a lot thicker. It's not as texture, but it is quite rough. I do like the textured papers because they capture all of the paint and I think I just liked tactile. But if you don't like these particular papers, you don't have to use them. It guy. You can just do you if you want to use smooth paper or thinner paper or different types of paper, have a little experiment and try different options. That's the only way you're going to grow as an artist is if you actually try things, maybe mess it up, maybe get it wrong, and try something else. Mileage under the brush baby. That's how we get better as artists. So let's get to splashing some pipe around, right? So I'm going to start with some unlatched titanium and what I'm going to do is brush it onto the plate. And I'm going to put two colors. What kind of gone up create almost landscape he feels with our beautiful composition. So I'll just put the paint on the plight like that. Easy peasy. Then I'm going to put some bronze at the bottom of the plank. Oh man, it feels so smooth. And so now Right? So then what I want to do is to create that fabulous texture. We're going to be using the isopropyl alcohol. Now, I get this from the pharmacy or the chemist, but it says for cleaning and sterilizing electronic items, grooming tools, earrings, and newly PSD is basically it's just a really high concentrated alcohol. So I'm just going to put my finger over the bottle like that and put some of the alcohol on the plight. Now one it's going to do is create a fabulous kind of watery pattern. But because it's the Alcohol and it's not actual water, then it'll dry a lot quicker than if you're spraying water all over your plate. So this is why you've got to have quite thick paper because it's going to absorb all of that paint and fluid up. You're also going to probably want a pretty good drawing space because we're going to be making all her prints. Now, look at that. Isn't that just FUN? That's just beautiful, the texture it's making. We're also going to put other layers on top of your prints. So make sure you put it down somewhere so it can dry it and we can add more layers to it, right? So what I like to do is leave all that on the plate and then add more to it. So this time I'm going to add some gold in the metallic alcohol inks. Oops, I just splashed in the bitmap and I'm also gonna give it a spray. This has got the alcohol in it as well. And then we'll get things moving around a bit more. And let's see how that prints. It really is a matter of taking prints, trying things out, and then moving on with another idea. And you don't really get your flow until you actually start printing. Then you find your rhythm and you work out what's going to work best. I like that, say I like it with a lot less paint because it's got more movement to it. See how good it looks on the textured watercolor. Yeah, I'm briefly like that. Okay. So this time we're going to add a little bit of the iridescent white. I'm not going to worry too much about what's on the plate. I'm just going to keep mixing it because all of these tones are really gonna work well together. Let's get that on there. Let's throw a bit more of the alcohol on there. Let's swish it around so we get more texture happening. I might even throw some more of the Alcohol Ink on the plight as well. Now I've got two brushes going on about some more of that, which God give it a little spray to move some things around. Now, the more you building up on your client the video prints are going to be. So don't stress out if your first prints aren't looking at, right, but going to add other layers to them. Also, the more prints you take, the more paint build-up you've gone on your plate and it's just going to look a lot better. Stick with me. Stick with Medicaid is gonna be great. Alright, let's have a look at that. Say now look how FUN that is. That just looks absolutely fabulous with us. Wispy textures and it's beautiful colors. Yeah. It really doesn't need to match to it because there's already quite an amount on the plaque. This one's a little bit of metallic copper. Notice how I'm using similar color tones because I find that it just works better. This time I'm putting it on the thicker watercolor paper to see how good that looks. I do like being able to absorb all of these fabulous colors and textures. Look at that, that is just beautiful. I'm loving that print. I want a man. If we added some spray dies, inks, which are water-based ops, what do they sell? And then come and say, Great onto our mix. That would already got this. See the texture. It's creative because it's reacting against the alcohol on the plane. So let's add some of the beautiful spray inks. I've got the eyes inks, dye spray is the water-based said they're reacting to the beautiful alcohol that's on that up. Just spread it over the top. This time I'm going to pull it on some of the Japanese rice paper and see how well that absorbed on the beautiful color. Hi, Yes, Look at that. It creates more of a mottled pattern and I'm really enjoying that cow, a combination. One thinking, what about if we turn the jelly play around the other way? So it has more of a landscape emphasis. Then with these beautiful earthy tones, it really would look like I beautiful dreamy landscape. I'm telling you. Then we could put perhaps and image Transfer over the top. That had looked really cool. So let's do that. Now. If you notice, I still have the same plate. I haven't wiped it. I haven't cleaned it, and I'm just going to add similar colors to it. I really liked the prettiness of the iridescent white. That looks really nice. Let's add some of the glitch. Titanium will give that a little move around on the plight was spray some of the beautiful eyes inks on it and perhaps some of the Alcohol and let's see how that prints. Now, all of the pipe that was already there is still there and it will come off as you continue to pull prints. That's what I love about gelli printing. It's just so easy to keep creating. That could be why we end up with so many prints. A bit of an end, this copper bat, I should be able to squeeze a little bit out. Oh yeah, look at that metallic shine, love it. And perhaps some of the eyes inks. I know we're getting really carried away now with all our mixture. Let's perhaps put this on quite a thick piece of paper because yes, I do have a lot of paint on this plate. There we go. Look at all that paint. Yes. I know it's a bit of a lot of high. No, I didn't get carried away with this one. So we'll just keep pulling prints. Definitely looking quite landscape you don't, you think about we use a piece of our wet strength tissue. Look how beautiful that looks. You can also of course, add a little dash of the spray inks when it comes off the plate, just to add a little shimmer or to deepen some of the times. Oh, man, that's just 3. Creating Multiple Layers: I'm going to pull this one on the wet strength tissues and see if I can get most of the paint off the plate. Because then I'd like to add perhaps some of these beautiful blue-gray color that'd be really nice. Oh, that's such a nice texture. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to let this dry and then I'm going to pull this off the plate with another color that's going to have such a beautiful texture to it. So I'm using my favorite iridescent bronze Fine, The Golden. And I'm going to see if I can get the rest of that paint out of the gel plight sector. Beautiful color. Well it pulled quite a bit of the fabulous paint out. Have a look at that. That just looks glorious. Look at the fabulous texture on that. It looks like an old weathered wool or texted paint peeling sign of the house from Venice. That's just beautiful, bright. So I'm going to leave that still left on the plight and that'll keep coming off as I keep pulling the prints. Now I've got a couple of my earlier ones that I did. Then I'm mostly dry and I'd like to give them a second layer. Now if I look at this print and I can see where I want to add more color. I want need some up there, some down here. And perhaps I might use some of the iridescent white because it's a very light height and it won't add a whole lot to her about it. We'll create some texture and I might even pull up some of that underneath paint there that'd be good. Bottom here, I think I might add some of that beautiful blue gray that I've got on my table. Just a little. Because I think that beautiful bronze color could work really well with this blue-gray. That's pretty nice. So let's give it a spray of some alcohol. Stays this way is by spray going to be this, give it a spray. And perhaps even a little bit of, let's say, what about some bronze Schumer in the eyes inks because I just liked the way you get that kind of patterning happened with the water-based inks on top. I love it. Look how it separates and beads up like that. It creates a fabulous texture. So I will put this second layer on the print and see how that goes. It never quite knowing what you're going to get until you pull up the pace of byte. But sometimes that's a little scary. But it is the excitement of why we love jelly printing so much. It's so experimental and it's so exciting to see what we can create. Now, I'm loving that I think the textures are just beautiful. I might even add just a little deepening with the coffee in the eyes Ink. And maybe just a little spritz of the goldmine. I do love that. I do love a little bit of blink, but that page is now looking absolutely beautiful, especially for what a glorious atmospheric backgrounds. What about this one? I think it could do well with a little bit of that blue-gray color. Maybe we'll just put it straight down, see what it picks up. You never know sometimes what you might be able to get off the plate. Yeah, that's beautiful. I really liked the way the blue-gray adds to the coppa and the bronze that was already on the plight and added some more of the iridescent white up there. And that looks pretty nice. I've got this capa blast in the isaacs. I wonder what that'll look like. Oh, that's beautiful. That matches that color really nicely. I'm really glad I pulled that out. A little bit of spray. Jazz, beautiful. Say that patch there. What happens if we add alcohol to it now? Yes. Because gotta try these things, throw it on there. It can only not work. What's the worst thing that can happen? It could look terrible. Well, you could always just wipe it off if you don't like it. But I think that's looking pretty nice. So I'm thinking that these two prints could definitely do with a second layer. It's rather hard to stop. A little addictive because you just want to see what the next print is and what the next marks going to be and how the next paint response. I just love it. Sometimes you just have to go over your prints a few times before they turn out exactly how you want. Now that looks absolutely beautiful. I think I've put it on the gel plight like three times now. It wasn't even really dry this time. But I wanted to suck up some of these glorious combination that's now happening on my plate. That's because I've just kept printing and printing and that is just beautiful. I couldn't reproduce that again if I even tried it so unique, It's such a beautiful mono prints. And this one makes me really happy. I'm gonna use this particular straight tissue paste to keep going over the plate and picking up all of that goes prints. Because it just looks amazing the more layers you put on of the beautiful colors, the more Texas you pick up. They create such incredible, beautiful little abstract paintings. Look at that. That is just glorious. What I love about using the spray inks with the alcohol is that kind of incredibly textured, feathered look as it separates there on the plight. I just love it. This is why you need to be using watercolor paper. Soak up all the layers of paint. Just beautiful and so much FUN. So I'm going to let all these prints dry. And then we're going to look at and see if we want to add anything else to them. Maybe some stencils or some stamps or some image transfers. Or let's see what we think about our beautiful Atmospheric Backgrounds. 4. Adding Stamps & Stencils: Of course, I kept printing and Printing. Look how beautiful they turned down. I absolutely loved it. I had so much fan. I was trying different combinations of these colors more or less or each of the colors. And I would just kept experimenting with different options. You don't have to use these colors. You can use any colors. What we're experimenting with is using the acrylic paint and juxtaposing that against the alcohol inks and the alcohol solution with the water-based inks, It's so much FUN. Allow yourself to experiment, make a mess, get a wrong, it really doesn't matter. You can add another layer to your prints, and even that changes them dramatically. The ghost prints look absolutely fabulous, especially when you pull them up with the golden bronze, iridescent Fine. Oh man, it's just magic. The amount of texture and beauty in the prints and then mono prints. You can't repeat them than one-of-a-kind, amazing, incredible handmade papers for you to use in your mixed media projects or your collages or anything really. So let's have a look now, what we can do with these beautiful prints. Have a look at these glorious prints. I just loved them on so happy. Now remember, they will take two or three layers of putting them on that fabulous paint and Alcohol Ink and texture and spray inks to get them looking like this. This definitely had a couple of layers. And this one turned out absolutely beautiful because I kept putting it on the gel plight and just touching it with paint until it built up an amount on the print that I'm really enjoying. I love this mix of colors. Even the ghost prints look absolutely beautiful. Look at the lovely textured math on that, that looks glorious sodas, that one. And landscape design one looks beautiful to that was when I turned the gelli plate around and did it on an landscape format that's looking glorious. Now, what are we going to do with these prints? I mean, you can use them just like this. They're absolutely beautiful by themselves. They're glorious abstract paintings in their own right. I mean, look at this one is just fabulous, but if you want to add some more embellishments to them, you could make some colors. You could add some stamping awesome Stencils onto them and turn them into even more developed artworks. So I might just give you a little example of something that I would do with them. Just to give you some more ideas, we can easily put some stamps onto one of these prints. I've got this beautiful foam stamp tapping into some paint, some of the glorious golden iridescent coppa. And look how beautiful that looks. Just love it. So easy, we can transform this glorious background into a beautiful print that we can then add to our other artwork or collage or anything else. I think I've got a small one as well. These ones are from PMI, the studio. I'll put the website into your notes if you want to find where to get them. Love it. Look at that. I know I'm going crazy now. Somebody stopped me. That is just glorious and so easy. I love easy, I love instant. Look how beautiful that looks. Adding a simple leaf stamp onto the glorious background. Maybe just one more. Okay, One more, one more week go. Here we go. Fabulous. It's the same process. If we want to put a stencil on the page, look at the beautiful combination of colors. This one's had definitely three layers of paint on it. You just keep working on them until you're happy with how it's looking. So putting a stencils over the top, Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. I've got a little bit of brown black paint on this tray stencils, and I'm just dabbing it on. Adding a little bit of shape to enhance out landscapes theme. Tonight. How does that look? Look, how easy that was? It looks fabulous. And I'm loving the way it's got that pop of blue up there, the beautiful earthy tones, little bit of Cloud. All of a sudden, it's the landscape. There are so many possibilities with stencils and stand. It truly is absolutely endless. What you can create with these fabulous backgrounds and a few items, Art Supplies. Now I'm thinking we could just add a little bit of the iridescent bronze Fine to this print to make it not so stiff looking, it's a little stiff on the page. I'm adding a tiny bit on my brush, very stiff brush, dry brush to do a little bit of scumbling on the tree, just touching it a little bit just to break it up so it's not so stiff looking because it just needs a little bit of playing. Now, if you're doing this and you put on too much and you don't like it, you can just wipe it off again. So don't be scared to try just a little bit of scumbling on the tray so it blends more in the background and doesn't stand out and looks clunky. If you're not happy with this section because you print is dry now, it's easy peasy, you can just wipe it off with a damp cloth until you're happy. I just wanted a little bit on there. Not too much just to break it up. So it wasn't so solid in that brown, black color and it just kinda blended a bit more with the background that makes me a lot happier. What do you think? Don't you think that looks better? I think so. And it only took a few seconds to do that. And that's looking much better. What about we add a stencil with some abstract shapes. I'm really liking these crosses. And I'm thinking we put some on with this beautiful champagne gold Stencils, butter. Yes, look at the color. It's beautiful. Now, what I like about Stencils, but it is, it's thick, straight out of the pot. You don't have to mix it with anything for it to get a lot. Fermat, which I often do with my acrylic paint when I want to put a nice big thick stencil on. And you just use it straight like this with a palette knife or easy peasy. Yes, I do like instant, beautiful and thick. It's luxurious. And look at the glorious champagne gold color. That looks absolutely fabulous. I love it, but I am always partial to abstract. Loved the Stencils, butter, and you can get it in a whole heap of colors. It's just so easy to use straight out of the pot and straight onto the beautiful print, looking glorious, love it 5. Image Transfer Magic!: So if we want to get a little more advanced with our techniques, but using our fabulous Backgrounds, we could create an image Transfer. Now the most important part of an image Transfer with the jelly Plate is to make sure you have a good-quality color laser print. I get mine done from an office stationary supply shop, its commercial machine. These particular prints always work for me. If you have a laser printer at home, you might have trouble because it doesn't have enough toner In the buildup of the print because the toner is what resist the paint on the dark sections and makes that stick to the plate, the light areas or the white sections that don't have any toner, just absorb all the paint and they don't stay on the plates. Art creates that dark and light transference of the image. You might need to run your print through your copy or twice. If you have a home laser printer to make your image work, don't try and use inkjet prints. They just don't work on. Your image copy is the most important part of doing it. Image Transfer, making sure you have a good-quality lies and print. The second most important part is the amount of paint that you put on the plane. You don't want to match because it gets absorbed into the paper. But you want enough so that it leaves a print. I know it's a little tricky, but I do have other classes here on Skillshare that go into the image Transfer with a lot more detail. Now, my plate is beating up because I didn't clean it after we did the Alcohol Ink autopsies. So that's another point. After you've put the Alcohol Ink on your plate, you might want to give it a clean wipe it over, and then use some mineral oils or baby oil to make sure that it's not going to dry out. Friday. Let's see how we work with the transfer process. Remember, you need a good quality laser colour print for the transfer process for this particular technique. Today, it's not too bad. That's in the brown, black color. And then I'm going to put it straight onto one of the goes prints because I think that'll look really nice. I liked the kind of sketchy textured paint that's on the paper. Let's see how it works. This particular ghost print is on one of the wet strength tissue prints. So it should pull up that Transfer. You can wait until the image Transfer has dried and then use a Mac medium to pull it up. I'm not good with waiting so high. Like to just put the paper straight on and pull the print while it's still wet. Not too bad. It's come right off Plate, which is really good. And look how beautiful that looks. It looks like a watercolor painting. You can see my little person there. It's a little bubbly and sections because I didn't claim applied, not to worry, not to worry. I liked the texture of it. You can definitely see that it's trees. You might not notice the person as much, but it probably dry a bit darker and look a bit better. I have a role. I'm pretty happy with that. I liked this sketchy background color that's from pulling the ghost print. There's no way I could reproduce this. It's quite a beautiful MammaPrint. Definitely looks like a watercolor. He'd go, That's another technique that you can use these beautiful atmospheric backgrounds for having a go at the image Transfer. Just remember what I said. The most important thing is your color laser printer. Little bit of practice. I'm sure you'll get the hang of it in no time. So let's just try another one on this beautiful ghost print, where this glorious tree image and a little people at the bottom. Now that just turned out beautiful. I'm really happy with how this looks like the little cluster of columns up here. He said, he just doesn't want you gonna get until you try. I liked the way there's the lines across the bottom here and where the people are and then park bench, that turned out really good. It actually turned out better than I was expecting. Because once I was pulling the print, I thought maybe I should've made it landscape, but it actually turned out a lot better portrait. And you can see the people down the bottom really clearly 6. Thank You & Farewell: Thanks for joining me in the odd class. Wasn't it just so much FUN? And how many prints digit creative? Dye? Forget to post a peak in the project section, I'd love to see your favorite prints. I really loved beautiful multilayered background, the abstract prints, but then I also really enjoyed those image transfers. They came up just so beautiful. Have a look at my other Skillshare classes, especially if you want to develop more techniques with the image transfers. I have a few here on Skillshare. There's also some collage making techniques. So have a look at my other classes. I now you're going to enjoy it. If you have any questions or if you're stuck on something or something's not working, right. You can always e-mail me directly, froyle it for a lot.com and I'll try and ends all of your questions. But don't forget, keep creating, have courage, have a lot of fan and don't give up. You can also contact me on Facebook or Instagram, and you can have a look at my beautiful original paintings on my website. If you want to show me more what you'll creating common join my private Facebook group. There's a whole lot of beautiful people in there that just love creating and encouraging each other. I know you'd really enjoy it. The links will be on your notes that's in the class descriptions. I have a look at that and I really hope to see you again in the studio. 7. Bonus Lesson - Turning Up The Heat: Welcome back to the studio. Today, I'm creating a bonus lesson for this class because I just want to try these fabulous experimental techniques again, but with some different colours. I'm wanting to use a little brighter colors. Mm, maybe get even a little bit more experimental. But what I love is putting the paint on the plate with the alcohol and also the alcohol inks, maybe some acrylic sprays. I'm even going to pull out some powdered pigments. I'm a bit excited. I'm a bit like a mad scientist. I do like to experiment and create different types of textures with the fabulous gel plate. Now, today, I have a 12 by nine gel elf plate that I'm using. I'm also going to be using this paper today, which is a watercolor paper. It's 185 grams or 90 pound hot pressed paper so it's beautiful and smooth. And that was why I bought this particular paper, and that's why I'm using it for this experiment. Now, it's not super thick, but I'm hoping it's going to be thick enough for what I want to do because I will be giving the plate lots of loven and the paper's going to have to absorb all of the paint that I'm going to throw on it. Now, I'm going to start with these two colors. I have naples yellow, reddish, and naples yellow. The paint is a little stiff. It's an atiler paint. So I've put them into these watercolor containers with some water just to soften them and make them thinner to use because I want to get that watery, washy kind paint a technique on the plate. That's the plan, Stan. So we're going to start with these colors, but we obviously aren't going to stay there. I also might pull out some fluid paint. I know. It's going to get very experimental today. So let's just start with these beautiful colours, brushing it on the plate. This is a fairly new gel plate, so it is still going to be beating up, which I totally love. I love that effect. I love the watery look and the beating effect on the plate. So I'm going to put some of these two beautiful colors, brush it straight onto the plate. That's how we're going to start. And then let's see where we might want to head. Maybe a bit more of this one. It's beating up more than I thought it would. That's really funny, but it's going to look beautiful 'cause the colors are glorious. Shall we splash a little bit of maybe the magenta in the fluid paint? So it's a lot more fluid than the full body paint, but not as runny as what I just created by adding the water. Look at the colors. Ah. Now, these are some of my absolutely favorite colors. So that's why we have to use them today because I'm just wanting to Right. We've got some paint on there. It's beated up pretty nice. Maybe we'll add a little bit of the ozoGld. This is another beautiful color, some of the fluid paint into this area down here. That is going to look stunning, absolutely stunning. Right. Now what do we want to do? Perhaps a little bit of the izincs. Now, this is an acrylic spray ink. It's definitely one of my favorites, although it's a lot harder to get now because the ia zincs are actually getting discontinued was what I heard from somebody. Heartache. That's a bit sad. So let's spray on some of the beautiful bronze Schumer favorite colors. Right, I think we could just pull that and see what we've got with these colors because then we're just going Oops, it's a bit slippery. Because then we're just going to keep adding to the plate and keep adding to these glorious colors and see what kind of experimental prints we can create. I love doing experiments. I think it's one of my favorite ways to create with the gel plate. Because you never quite know what you're going to get to you pull back that print. Ready? Are you ready? Tada, tada. Yes. Now that is absolutely beautiful. And we can add to that. We can create a second layer. We can create stencils. We could add an image transfer. We could create paint. We could draw up with even some paint markers. There's so many ways you can use these beautiful starting prints. And they really do look like a painting because we've literally brushed on the paint. Right. So let's add a bit more of this glorious color. Now the paints are going to get a little more mixed up because I'm just adding them straight over the top. And that really is a bit of fun. I love the way it creates those textures. Now, what do I want? Do I want some more magenta? Okay. Let's add a little bit of magenta onto here. But this time, let's add some of the alcohol spray. That's got the ypropl alcohol in it. Maybe some alcohol ink. Let's do some of that rich gold. You can't fail with gold. We might just add some more of the beautiful naples yellow down here. Absolutely. Love the brush marks and the textures that this kind of application creates. It's so much fun. Don't be afraid. Just splash it on the plate and see what you get. Right. Alcohol inks. Are we feeling brave? I'm feeling very brave. That's I can only not work. And it'll be alright. Let's put some of that on there. What happens if we spray Oh, some alcohol to it? I don't really know what that did, but it might have done something. I think it kind of just disperses the alcohol ink. See, you can see now the alcohol coming through the paper. On the back there, it just creates a different texture. It creates a different mark because the alcohol ink and the alcohol itself reacts to the acrylic paint, and it just has a different kind of look to it. I did say I was a mad scientist, now, did I? Right, oh, right, oh. Let's have a look and see what we got from that. Little experiment. Oh, yeah, baby. You can see now the alcohol ink on there on that section of it. Now, perhaps I need some more full body paint on it because it's beaded up so much, I'm losing sections of my paint, but I am very keen to do second layers on these prints. What about we get a little bit more dramatic with some quinacridone violet. So this one is similar to the magenta that I was already using. It's just a little darker. And again, it's one of my favorite paints. So let's put some of that on the plate. Oh, I love, love, love the look of this with the brush marks. And then we could add some of this at the bottom. Mm, maybe we'll add some of the ozoGld. I like that idea, as well. That's such a beautiful color. Perhaps a little bit more of the alcohol ink. What's that going to do? Oh, look how cool it looks. Now, that looks amazing. This time, I don't think I'm going to spray it, I'm just gonna leave it like that. Let's leave it like that and pull that print and see what it does. It's kind of sitting on top of the acrylic paint because I didn't put any alcohol on it or spread it around. It's just going to sit on the top. And because we're pulling it with such beautiful watercolor paper, I'm hoping it's going to just suck up into the paper. I'm hoping. I'm always hoping. But the colors are beautiful. The paints look great, and it's just a whole lot of fun. Let's see what that did, how the colors responded, and how the alcohol inks. Ah, that didn't do what I thought it might do. Look, it didn't stick to the paper. It's still on the plate. Ops these. Maybe I think I might wait for this paint to dry and then pull it with another color because that's really interesting what it's done there. That was just with the alcohol ink, but I didn't spray it with the alcohol. So let's wait for that to dry and then pull it. Maybe with that naples yellow, oh, or else I might get some of the rich gold. Right, so I gave that a few minutes to dry on the plate, which is quite fascinating what the alcohol inks have done. They're stuck to the acrylic paint. They didn't come off on the first print. Which I think is a whole lot of fun. So let's add some of this naples yellow to the plate. And we'll put the paper on, let it dry and pull that print. Oh, man, that's so super fun. And let's see how beautiful that's going to look. And then we have to try more experiments. Now, my watercolor paper is just a tiny bit narrower than my plate, which is kind of fun because the color goes all the way to the edge, which I really like. So I'm going to let this dry for a few minutes before I peel it back to see what amazing beautiful print painting we've created. So I gave the print just a couple of minutes. It wasn't too long. I'm hoping that it's going to be dry enough to lift up that paint layer. Let's have a look. Look. Ooh. I think it's going to be right. It's coming off very easily. Tara, ta. Look at that, look at that. You can see if you get in the angle of the light, you can see the alcohol ink very gold and very metallic there on the plate and which is very exciting. And it totally came off with that paint layer. So no fear. March on. Yeah. The alcohol ink is coming off fabulous, even when it gets stuck on the plate the first time. So I'm going to do that again. That's just so much fun. So what shall we add this time? We've got the ozoGld. Let's have some of that. Some of the magenta. Yeah, okay. Some of the magenta. And then let's add some of the naples yellow, as well. Into this section. These colors are quite beautiful. They're a little like sunset colors, don't you think? They are working just fabulous. So are we going to splash on some more of that. God, I think so. How can we not? My pain is still beating up on this plate. That's okay. I don't mind that. It's creating a really interesting texture. I wonder what would happen if we splash more of the alcohol ink on it. Where's my alcohol ink? What does that do? I don't know, man. It didn't really do that much, but let's put some of the gold. Oh, I've got some copper, as well. Maybe we should try that. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Look at that. That's fantastic. I like the way it's creating this texture down there. Was that the alcohol ink that did that? I don't know, but it looks pretty cool. So let's pull that straight away. And then if it leaves with some of the paint on the plate or the alcohol ink on the plate, then we know what to do, don't we? We just let it dry and pull another print. Oh. It's a win win. We got two for one deal. Absolutely love it. You can see from the back of the paper here the alcohol coming through and soaking in to the watercolor paper. Let's see what it did for us. What did we create? Oh. Beautiful. Look, it stayed there again. Alright, we're gonna have to pull it. But those colors are stunning, and then this print's going to get a second layer. So I put the beautiful rich gold, the Atilia paint color onto the gel plate once. That layer was a lot dryer, and then I've put my paper down, and now we're ready to pull the print. I've given it a few minutes. Not too long, but long enough for it to dry enough on the plate to pick up those paint layers. Well, that's the theory. Maybe I didn't wait long enough. That's a good lesson to learn. You do have to wait a bit longer if you want your prints to pick up all of the paint that's on the gel plate, especially when you're getting experimental and throwing lots of different elements onto the plate. But look at that. That's a whole lot of fun. What a beautiful print that is. Now, this section here has those texted marks because it's kind of all beating up with the water. This section here has got more the acrylic paint and the alcohol ink that I've picked up from this pool, and there's the beautiful gold in the background. Now, that's a whole lot of fun. We could really push that some further. If you're trying this idea and your paint is not beating up and creating that kind of texture, just add some more water or mix it like this into a different container with some water if it's a full body paint, and then it'll create those marks on the gel plate. I really like it. I think it's beautiful, a great texture. And then this section up here, that's the fluid paint so that this one, which doesn't really need any water because it's thin enough to paint it on the plate like that. Alright, what are we doing next? So, what would it look like if we added some different colored alcohol inks onto the plate? As I use up what's left in this one? Instead of just the gold, what about we splash on some other colors? Yeah, that could look pretty cool. Look at that. Even that by itself looks really cool. It's that watery effect. Just a bit of water. Oh, I just love it. Right, oh. What about some of this one, which is Fuchsia. Fuchsia is a good color. Beautiful color. Oh, man, look at that. Is that going to pick up in a print? I actually don't know. That's what we're doing. We're experimenting. Oh, man, that looks amazing. What else should we add? What about some deep purple? Oh. Now I'm getting really messy and it's going everywhere, but let's add some of that, as well. I don't know if this will actually pick up. In a print. Oh, man, I think my Deep purple's done. But I know that we can roll on a paint layer and pick it up that way, so that'll work. Should we add some gold? You know, we always need the gold. Let's let's add a bit of gold to that. And what about if we just spread it around a little? Maybe it'll absorb better if we put the alcohol on it, as well. But see what that does. I'm pretty keen. Just to pull that off the plate and then pick up another print with a paint layout. I think that would look pretty nice. The colors are beautiful. It's soaking really well into the watercolor paper. So let's see what that does. You don't know until you try. And I love experimenting. Did it pick it up? Oh, beautiful. It's beautiful. Look at the textures in that. Why were you so worried? Look at the textures. That looks fantastic. You know, I'm going to have to do that again. Let's do it again. What I love about this kind of application is that it's instant. We're pulling the prints straight away. And that really is fun. We're not waiting for them to dry. We're just pulling them up and seeing what we get, and that's a whole lot of fun. So there's still some of the gold alcohol ink on there. And then I've got the ozogld in the fluid. And which one did I pull out? I pulled the magenta. Man, I loving those colors. Right oh, well, I might have a bit too much of one color on there, so what are we going to add this time? What about we add some acrylic ink spray, the ic. Let's add a bit of that on there. See what that will do. See how it just kind of makes the paint all beat up. So more creating those texture, M loving it because I'm thinking that the ghost prints gonna look pretty amazing. So let's just pull that. We are going to add some second layers to these prints, and let's lift that off the plate. Then we could put on some more alcohol ink and then pull a print with a paint layer. Right o. Let's do that. Let's see what we get from that. Well, it's all a bit one colour. That's not very exciting. Didn't excite me at all. I think it all just kind of blended in. That was a bit of an anticlimax, don't you think? So, what about if I put some alcohol ink on it now? Oh, yeah, baby. That's a bit more fun, don't you think? And then what happens if we spray it with the alcohol? You know this is highly experimental, right? Oh, that could be fun. That's running a little. Yeah, I like that. Let's spray a bit more. That gets the alcohol ink moving. Oh, yes. That looks great. Then we get a whole lot more texture going on. Loving that. What about if we add a little bit of our fuchsia? What will that do? We'll just put a bit of that in there. It doesn't do much because it actually looks too similar to the background color, but the golds looking beautiful and putting that other color on did kind of just help move it around. I know. Well, that was cool. Oops, we better do something with the gel plate now. There was quite a beautiful color and pattern left on the plate after I pulled up that other print. So I just rolled over with the beautiful rich gold, put my paper down, and now a few minutes later, it should be ready to pull up. It's a little bit fun with all these different mediums on the plate. Ooh. You do have to wait for it to dry properly. Loving this one, loving this one. Look at that beautiful texture and coverage of the glorious gold in the background. That's just soaked up. Absolutely beautiful. I love that. I love all the paint, application and brush marks and the watery texture. And you can see some of the fabulous gold, alcohol inks well on there, loving it. That is gorgeous. Now, what we might do next is pull back those prints that we've already done and put a second layer because then we can get even more experimental. Right, so I think this is the first print. It's nice and dry, anyway. It's got a nice color to it. It's got a good tone. It's got great texture. You can see where I've pulled it off. The wet paint it has all these textural marks. Lovely. But why would we leave it alone? It's dry now. We could do anything to it with all of these beautiful colors. So I'm thinking, let's add some more paint down the bottom here and maybe a bit of drama up the top here, just a little something. Just a little something, something. How about a little bit of the naples yellow? My watery version I used it all up, so we might just have to spray it some more. To get that fabulous watery texture happening. But we'll put that on the plate to start with. And then what do we want up here? Well, we don't want exactly the same colors, but I do want to add a little drama to it. So maybe maybe we'll add a little bit more of this thicker naples yellow up here because I'm thinking, what about if we added some more of the alcohol ink on it to create some texture on top of this paint because it pulls off straight away. And then I thought this could be a little crazy. But why stop now? Why I've pulled out some Linda's gang magical shakers. They're basically a powdered pigment, and I'd love to see what these would do on the plate. And if we spray them, I'm pretty sure that they would have an incredible color. Now, these are in a fabulous little shaker container. It's just like adding salt to your dinner. Oh. That's pretty exciting. We've got that on. It's going to print in those areas. So what about if we added a little bit of our Look at that. A little bit of our powdered pigment on there, and I say a little bit and add a whole heap. Do we want alcohol or water? Well, either would work. I'm thinking. We'll go with the alcohol because it dries faster. Then maybe it won't be so saturated and runny. But I don't know, because disclaimer, I've never tried this before on the plate. But it can only not work. Let's just get a bit of movement happening because it's fluid. It's going to move around a bit. What do you think? What do you think? Let's put it on there and see what it does. If the alcohol doesn't work so great with the powdered pigment, then we can just put water. It would work just as well. It just makes everything a lot wetter, because, of course, the upropy alcohol dries way faster. But what did that do? I don't know, man. It might not look any good at all, but we don't know unless we try. And if it doesn't work any good, M, we can paint over it. We can use it for collage paper anyway. It doesn't have to be a perfect print. It could become anything in the creative process. Tara, Tara. What did that do? What did it do? That created a fabulous texture. I'm pretty happy with that. Look, I like it much better because it's got far more interesting texture now on it on that second layer. That is pretty fun. What's on my plate? Oh, there's a bit left on the plate. I'm gonna leave that, and I'm gonna roll over and add some more paint to it. Right? So I pulled this second one up off the floor. I don't know if it was the second print, but it was the second one that I picked up off the floor. And this is what we're starting with. What shall we add? Hmm. Maybe a little bit. We don't want to use that color because there's already a ton of that on there. I'm thinking the naples yellow is still going to have the most contrasting effect. So let's add some more of that. Let's add some water this time and see if we can't get a little bit more movement happening with that beautiful powdered pigment idea. The paint's a lot thicker, so I definitely need to add some water, but I did like the way this colour created that texture on top of the last print. I thought that looked pretty cool. Now, after this print, I might let the paint dry and then pour the ghost print. Maybe Baby? What about if we added some of the alcohol ink? What would that do? I don't know. We might not see it so much because of the dark color that we're going over, but let's add it anyway. We got nothing clues. Why stop now. Oh, what about some orange? Orange might be alright, too. Let's add a little bit of orange in here. And then we could put some maybe let's put some pigment on that or we should move it around a little. Oh, man. Now things are getting really crazy. Let's move that paint around a little because it's a little a lot stiffer being the full body. And then I've got some in the magical shakers. Oppressionisti ink. What color is that gonna be? Pretty dark. We're getting dramatic. Just saying. Oh, look at that. Yes. That's dramatic. Now, it looks like pepper on your dinner. That should we try it with the Oh, it moves a lot more with the water? I know it's all getting saturated now. Oh, man. Look what we've done. Look what we've done. We're going to put it on straight on top of the previous print. I have got no idea how it's going to turn out. Now we got everything going on. We've got the acrylic paint. We've got the alcohol inks, and we've got powdered pigment. Oh, man. We've got fluid paint, we've got full body paint. We've got it all going on. Dare I even look to see what I've done? Look at that. That looks like a pretty stunning landscape. Now, if let me just look at that. That looks amazing. Right. I'm going to leave that exactly like that. I'm going to wait for it to dry, and then I'm going to pull that with white or gold, maybe because the gold, you'll see through, we're gonna do that. Push that up there. Well, what about this? This looks absolutely amazing, but we need some gold on it. Of course we do. Oh, what about some copper? Okay. I've got some copper. Alcohol inks. What about we just put Oh, yes, a little bit of copper through there. That's pretty nice. Maybe up there. Little bit. That's pretty beautiful. And then we'll just run that like that. Maybe we'll run it like that. If we give it some more alcohol, we will. Give it a bit more of a squirt. Run it like that. Through all those textures, and that baby is going to look beautiful. That powdered pigment telling. It looks pretty good. And it's got all of that fabulous texture. So I put this back onto the floor to dry. And then when that lovely wet mess here is dry. I'm gonna pull that print, as well. This looks absolutely beautiful. I really hope it prints up well, but there's a lot of wet paint because I sprayed it with water. Quite a lot. And alcohol and pounded pigment and alcohol inks and acrylic paint. So, this beautiful full gel plate of luscious colors and textures is going to take quite a bit of time to dry. So I'm going to put it aside, and I'm going to pull out my second plate gus 'cause I can't stop now. And I just picked up this one from off the floor of drying. It's beautiful. It turned out well, it's got some great textures on it, but, of course, now I've pulled that I've pulled out the powdered pigments. I'm a bit excited for that. Shall we use the naples yellow again? Well, that seems to be working. Well, my brush has got a bit of orange on it, not to worry. Now, I don't want to cover it entirely. I just want to add some textural elements. So do you think I can do that? That's the question. See the difference with the thick full body paint? It's not beating up on my plate like it was before when I had mixed it with water. I do like that texture, but that's how you get it. Super easy. Just mix your full body paint with water, and it creates that fabulous beading look. Now, I'm thinking why I'm using the full body paint is because I want to just create a base layer on the plate because I'm going to put on some more of those alcohol inks and that powdered pigment, and I just want to lift that up off the plate on this just to create more texture. So I'm thinking that the full body paint will create a good base for that alcohol ink and that pigment to sit. And then, as you saw before, what's left on the plate is amazing, and that will create another beautiful print. So shall we go with this color again? I'm thinking, I like the fuchsia. Let's splash that on. Then we might splash on you could use the rich gold, but it just doesn't seem to pick up. Well, off the plate with the first one, it does with the second one. So let's just put it on there anyway, and we're going to add the alcohol to it, which gives it a bit of movement, although I did think that the war tarp gave it much more movement. Look at that. That already looks amazing. What are we going to do here? Well, we need to break up this paint for a start. And then I could add some copper down here. That doesn't look like copper. It looks like brown. I don't lay their color. Right. We're not using that one. What about this one? This one says copper, as well. Man, that wasn't copper. They're lying to me. That looks more like copper. Let's add some of that onto there. Then some alcohol to break it up a bit. See my paints now starting to create that beautiful texture. And then, yes, I love this idea of my little pepper pepper marks. We could put the other one up here, okay. Oops came out a bit much then. Then if we add some more water to get it moving, let's get everything moving. Oh, man. Look at that. Look at that. Oh, Oh, what about some acrylic ink, okay? Oops. This one's bronze. In the acrylic. Broonz shimmer my favorite Izinc spray. That's on there, as well. Look, that looks stunning in itself. So we're just gonna put a bit of it onto this one, and then whatever's left, we'll let dry and we'll pull that print. You really could just keep going and trying different combinations of the paint and the inks and the alcohol and the alcohol inks. And the powdered pigments. You could just try different color combinations and see what you get. Look at that and then that's fabulous. Yes, we're pulling that print. Let's just move that. And then if you don't like something when you pull the print up, like, I actually really like this section. You can just wipe it back off. Look at that. That's fantastic. I like that section there, so I want to keep that color. Let's just wipe that off there, but then the rest of it's okay. Get that off there. That looks beautiful. Look at that. That's so interesting. Beautiful colors and textures, so many possibilities, so many beautiful prints to make. Now, both my plates are drying. So I'm these two prints here that I really like, but I might add a bit more to them, and seeing as I don't have a gel plate, 'cause they're both sitting with thick, beautiful, luscious, but very wet paint on them, wonder what it would look like if I just added the alcohol ink. That's pretty cool. I'm filling in the gaps. Hey, I'm liking this. That's super easy, too. Super super easy. So I'm just going to have a play with these two prints, add a few more textures to them, a few more colors. I'm definitely going to splash on some of that. Powdered pigment because that was a bit fun. But this alcohol inks that's pretty cool. That's working really well. I'm just smudging it with my fingers. It does get sucked up pretty quick because it is watercolur paper, and usually you put alcohol ink on a non porous substrate like upo paper or something like that. You don't usually put it on watercolor paper, but why would we want to do anything usual? Oh, I'm not thinking that we would want to do it like usual. So. But that looks pretty beautiful. I'm liking that, and that was super easy to do. Little bit of alcohol ink on there. What about if we add Oh, man, just keeps going. If we put some alcohol on it, what does it do? At the texture. That was fantastic. I know. You've got to experiment. Pull out your prints that you weren't happy with the first time you printed them on the gel plate and have a little clay, put some alcohol ink on them, give them a spray with some alcohol. You could probably use a brush. I'm just using my finger because it's here, it's attached. And it's attached to me. But you could perhaps use a brush. Oh, I really like the way it does that. Oh, that's a bit of fun. Okay, what about we put a little bit of tiny bit of fluid paint down here with a little bit of orange. I don't want to cover my print too much. So, add some water to the actual fluid. See how you're just kind of creating a glaze over the top, filling in all the white areas that didn't print. Oh, man, that's fantastic. That worked. And then if you spray it with the water, it creates that watery effect, loving it. Look how much better that is now. Super easy. What about if we put some of the beautiful gold on now? You know, we could put the alcohol on first, a bit of spray, and then drop in some of the gold. Oh, I didn't do what I thought it might. I thought it might, like, all bleed out, but it didn't probably because it's on watercolor paper, and it's a little porous, but it looks pretty darn beautiful. So that is a winner. We're gonna win a chicken dinner. That looks fabulous. Alright I'll leave that alone. I really like that. Created that beautiful texture on it. The glorious gold of the alcohol inks. And the color filled in all the white space. Yeah, winter loving that. Alright. What are we going to do with this one? We might add a little something to it. What are the colors, God? What about we just add a bit of that orange that whoops, maybe not too much orange, MO, there. Sounds a bit much. 'cause it looks pretty nice on the other piece. I do like the consistency of using all the same colors, and also, they're just here in front of me. So maybe I'm just being lazy. Oh, man. That really that's too much. Don't put too much on. 'cause you can't see your beautiful print. So no stress. Easy peasy wipe it back off with a baper white. Run it over the whole thing, and then take off Oops, what you don't want, which is super, super easy. Look at that. See, don't panic. That's fine. That's a really nice color. That's made the tone all work together nicely. Let's add some of that powdered pigment, okay? 'Cause that's pretty dramatic. I like this color now with the slight orange tint to it. Much better. Right oat. Where's the Shaker shaker Pepper. Where's the pepper shaker. There it is. Water? Oh. Wow, that's dramatic. Of course, the more you spray, the more it's going to bleed out. I'm loving it just like that. I'm leaving telling you, I'm leaving it alone. I might add a little bit of color in here with this alcohol inks. I'm a bit loving this today. Loving this alcohol ink today. Think I might have to pull this out again. Although I think I do need to get some more colors, but that's pretty nice. I'm liking that. We'll just fill in this space here. How easy is this? What about some copper this time? Let's add some copper up here. And then I think we're done. I'm pretty happy with it. I think it's a pretty nice print. More like a painting now, really? Would the alcohol do? Not that much. Moves it around a little bit. Creates a bit more texture. Those colors are pretty nice. Right. Eventually, the gel plates will dry and I'll pull those other prints. Have a look at all of my fabulous prints. Wasn't that just so much fun? Now, remember, have courage, be brave. And if it doesn't go the way you want with the first print, then put another layer on top. Experiment. Try different mediums and see what fabulous jelly prints you can create. Now, some of these have turned out absolutely spectacular, I must say. I Look at this one. With all of the fabulous textures, I just love it. You can see the splashy texture of the watery paint. You can even see some of the alcohol ink. That looks fabulous. I love the brushed on technique. This one I added the alcohol ink after it with the second layer, and I think it would make a fabulous background paper. The watercolor has held up really well. And I think they would be a fabulous start for another collage, adding some elements or adding it into a different art piece, that's going to work. This was just one print, the first print, and I love it. I love the freshness. It's got a real energy to it. I even love the white paper that I've left coming through. There's the alcohol ink down the bottom and through there and the gold. Now, talking about the alcohol ink, I was using this no name brand alcohol ink because I bought it cheap and I was experimenting, but alcohol ink is actually dye mixed with alcohol in the little bottles. So it has a high tendency to fade. It's fugitive. So you really need to think about that. If you're creating something that you want to sell or you want it to be archival, or you want it to remain exactly how it is, you may not want to use these alcohol inks, especially no named brand cheap ones. The Jaqardpinata. Alcohol inks are a much better brand to use. And the metallic ones, the gold that I was using is pigment based, so that one's not going to fade. So just think about that with what you're creating. All of these are fabulous prints today, I was just having a whole lot of fun and creating probably for collage paper. So they'll get ripped up and used for something in layers, so I'm not particularly worried about the alcohol inks fading, but it is something to think about. Also, the alcohol ink will stain your gel plate. Oh, you can't see it. But. But if I move all those, now you can see how there's, like, a pink color now on my beautiful gel elf plate, it has stained it from the alcohol ink. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't affect your jelly printing, not at all. So don't worry about that, but just know, it will do that. If that's going to bother you, then again, don't use the magical alcohol inks, but you're missing out on a whole lot of fun. Look at how fabulous these prints are. I just love them. Now, the other thing I wanted to say was the powdered pigment. When you leave it on the paper like this, it has a good chance of reconstituting. If it gets wet, it'll turn to paint again, or it could flake off if you leave it kind of dusty like I have with this one. So what I like to do is use a spray varnish. And this one I'm using here is a gloss varnish, 'cause I do like things shiny. And spray it on a nice even coat. Easy peasy, very quick, very simple. And now the powdered pigment won't reconstitute, it won't flake off. It won't become like paint if it got wet. Or if you're using it for collage and you're gluing it down, you don't want that smudging into what you're creating. So just another helpful tip there. Now, these two prints here were the last two prints that I took. The plates did eventually dry, and I rolled on my favorite golden idscent bronze fine onto the gel plate and put my paper down. Then I did have to leave it for quite some time. But because I am who I am, I didn't leave it long enough. And when I pulled up the prints, oh, man, some of it had stuck to the geopke. But no stress. I put on a bit more of the alcohol ink. I put a few little touch ups on them, and look how stunningly beautiful they are now. I do think these are actually my favorite prints, my prints of the day. Though, I do have so many, I'm loving these, too. So I think the best suggestion is maybe leave the print overnight or an extended period of time if you're going to add so much acrylic pane,