I am on a long printing and textile art course led by Hilary Beattie. Last summer we did a lot of gelli printing, and I made this zigzag book with little insert pages. I made one for myself, and one for a friend’s birthday.
It is on watercolour paper, with inserts on copier paper. It is all printed on the gelli plate with found objects, and overdyed with procion MX dyes.
I really enjoyed making it, and would love to make more books.
I really like the circles on the second to last picture. Cool project!
Thank you. The buttons are a collograph plate, with buttons glued to a piece of mountboard, and the large circles are the cardboard from a reel of packing tape.
Gorgeous! I love the texture you got all jusy from thr imagery. I’m corpus about the overdyeing with the procion Mx. Were those painted on or dipped?
Wow, gorgeous! Love the buttons also, and the keys. Great colors, too.
These are so fun!
Beautiful! Gelli printing is something I have never tried before. And the results are always so intriguing!
Just painted on with a big fat brush. I mix it up in jars, just the dye powder & water (no soda ash or other additives) and use it like watercolour. It is a great way of decorating paper.
(If you’ve not used procion dye before, wear a dust mask rated for particulates when mixing the loose powders.)
Thanks! I’ve just recently started becoming curious about ice dyeing fabric and I realized that it’s the same dye.
I can’t wait to see any future books that you make!
