Learn the skills to confidently print your own designs with gelatin plates and take home your own commercial gelli plate.
By the time you finish this workshop you will be equipped with the skills to confidently print your own designs with gelatin plates. Your tutor will demonstrate step-by-step and teach a range of approaches that you can take to this exciting creative process … you will be able to take those learnings and adapt and develop your own style and approach, creating your own gel plate prints. Join us for this journey around creativity with an emphasis on personal aesthetic, pattern and colour.
Course outline
The course will commence with a focus on whakawhanaungatanga – getting to know each other with an emphasis on our own artistic point of view or creativity goals.
We will learn and have a go with the following techniques:
- Creating atmosphere with layers (mountain range technique)
- Painterly techniques in gelatin plate printing
- Magazine resist technique
- Creating texture using stencils, stamps, posca pens and found objects
We are working towards one final art piece we can plan and complete and be proud of to take home as a keepsake of what we have learned. At the end of the day, you'll take home your own gelli plate (8x10").
Expected learning outcomes
- Know how to gelli print!
- Creative play/exercises to unleash creativity
- Gain insight into your design style and hone your ideas
- Experience with techniques such as image resist, layering, stamping etc
Who should attend?
This course will be enjoyed by individuals with a confident eye for colour art and design, as well as complete beginners for whom exploring creativity is a new interest. A positive uplifting and encouraging atmosphere is fostered in this class.
Information and logo sourced from the Selwyn Community Education website.
