Gelli Fun! #zebrapen #zebrapenUS #rangerink

 I love working with gelli plates!

You never know how it is going to turn out,

but it is almost always wonderful!

Awhile back, I was at an art class and we 

were using gelli plates -

I was working with an art journal

and some stencils. 

On the right hand side, I did the above page

using an overlap technique with lemon and grape.

 I have a habit of keeping some blank pages handy 

to rub my brayer on after I roll out a color.

This way I don't waste paint, and I have

some really cool pages to play with later.

The left hand page worked as my scrap 

and I brayered some leftover lemon.

Then I used a stencil to drop in some grape.

The instructor in the class I was attending

said you shouldn't ever mix yellow and purple

because you would get "mud."

I took that as a personal challenge. 

Hahahaha!

Above is the second 'pull' I did. 

 The challenge is "the why" for this next set of pages.

I did the gelli pulls and got the first two 

pages you see.

That night in my hotel room,

I used a Zensations Sarasa Fineliner 

from Zebra Pen to do some tangling on the first.

 These other four pages are much smaller.

They were bits of watercolor paper I took to the

class - specifically to roll leftover color onto.

I closed the book and smooshed the pages 

together and got a really cool mix of the 

stenciled ghost circles and the brayered 

leftover paint.  

Then, I took these four scraps and placed 

them into book - back and back and 

side by side, closed the book again and 

smooshed like crazy.

I was amazed at how much detail I was

still able to get. And really -

not mud at all!

So there is a way to use the 

colors you like and

not get mud. 

If you just think about it first

and go in with a plan. 

For color I used 

Dylusions Acrylic Paint 

from Ranger.

So much fun!