Gelli Printing 101
Play. Be Surprised. Create.
Price: $40
* no refund policy
Are you ready to meet your new best friend the Gelli Plate?
The Gelli Plate is an incredibly playful and intuitive tool for creating art. You may have seen me use it in my YouTube videos especially for creating art journal pages.
In this course you will become comfortable, flexible, and at ease with gelli printing so that by the end of the workshop your creativity will be free to flow whenever you sit down with your plate. You will learn how to prepare the plate, clean the plate, apply paint, and create your own beautiful pages for artwork or journaling.
You will explore techniques that will make your artwork unique, eye-catching, and explorative. These techniques include stenciling, spray dyes, mixing colors, and creating texture. You will become comfortable with particular styles that include patchwork, old wall, glazing, stenciling, and mark making.
The course includes five techniques:
1) Color: Glazing/Marth Rothko and Patchwork Techniques
2) Texture: Old Wall Technique
3) Stenciling
4) Mark Making
5) Coffee Staining
But most of all you will have fun. One of my favorite things about the Gelli Plate is its ability to foster a space of playfulness. It’s about the feeling of magic, wonder, and fun when a print is pulled, because although we definitely can structure and plan our artwork, there is always an element of surprise when it comes to Gelli Printing; hence why this technique for creating art teaches us about the sweet spot of creation as we are always in partnership with the things we wish to create!
I am so excited to share this experience with you!
Your Instructor
Robyn is a Nationally know artist living in the Southwest, exhibiting nationally and internationally with exhibitions in the Smithsonian Museums, Corcoran Art Gallery and art in the permanent collections of The MOMA as well as other notable collections.
She is a Master Bookbinder and Papermaker having studied in the tradition of Apprenticing as these were dying art forms in the 80's and only being revived by artists. She subsequently taught in Universities and Museum systems as an Adjunct Professor, often times setting up the programs in the Art Departments of these Schools nationally, as the discipline of "Book as Art" was becoming recognized as a significant art form.
Her design experience has won notable commissions: these include creating a distinctive award for Dr. Dorothy Irene Height's "Uncommon Height" Project which celebrated those who through their outstanding contributions has contributed to this country's advancement. Previous recipients have been Oprah, Dr. Maya Angelou, Vanessa Williams and Vernon Jordan, to name a few. Additionally, She has designed for Essence Communications, Ikea, Target, and UNICEF.
Robyn continues to work with individuals to help them create businesses and projects that incorporate their ideas, goals and dreams through personal Authenticity Coaching, Workshops, Seminars and Webinars.