Friday, August 8, 2025 / 9:30 am - noon

1025 Rosewood, Boulder

Cost: $35

 

Gel plate printing is a fun and easy process to create colorful designs, textures and patterns on all kinds of paper. Artists of all levels find the process enjoyably experimental.

 

Materials to bring:

 

• Gel plate(s): Available through Gelli Arts, Gel Press. Check Amazon, Michael’s, Guiry’s, Two Hands to purchase. Recommended: It's great to have more than one get plate since some of the techniques involve drying time -- so you can be working on two at once!.

• Paper: Your paper should cover your gel plate but leave a bit of margin. Plain printer paper works well but it’s fun to try thinner paper, rice paper, vellum, deli paper they wrap sandwiches in, etc. 

• And printing on colorful papers is fun too.

• Acrylic paint of any kind. The more colors the better! is better!.Tubes or squeeze bottles are convenient. Check out Art Parts on Arapahoe for a range of colors and kinds of paint at a lower price. A set of multi-colored tubes is ideal.

• Brayer(s) / rollers

• Clear packaging tape

• Mark-making tools/surfaces: various paintbrushes and palette knives, rubber scrapers, textured fabric, bubble wrap, yarn/string, botanical material (grasses, leaves, flowers, real or artificial), combs, sticks, prickly things, kitchen implements, stencil, rubber stamps, doilies, etc.

• Paint shirt or smock: this is messy!

• Something to take home your work in – portfolio, large envelope, box, whatever. We’ll make a lot of paper!

 

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