GEL PLATE PRINTING

• Gel Plate: Both Gel Press or Gelli Arts are great brands.

  • note: make sure you check the gel plate is compatible with acrylic paint. Ex. Speedball Gel plates are meant for printmaking ink and don’t work with acrylics.

  • Purchase at a local Art Supply Store or the Gel Press plates can be found on Amazon

• Brayer: I love my Speedball Brayer. I also have success with a Gel Press brayer and have found a few on Amazon. I like 4” or 5” in size for general use.

  • Can be found locally, at Michaels and on Amazon depending on the type of brayer you choose.

• Paper:

  • For creating collage papers my preferred paper is copy paper, I use hp Premuim28, I find this at Walmart.

  • you can try all sorts of papers and use what you have.

    • Music sheets and old book pages

    • Rice paper, wet strength tissue paper, deli paper

    • Cardstock

• Acrylic Paint :Liquitex Basics – perfect for collage and gel plate printing. This paint line is good, but not so costly you don’t feel you can’t have lots of fun!

• Printing Supplies: you don’t have to look very far or spend any money to find something that will make an interesting print!

ADHERING COLLAGE

• Paint Brushes: .Paintbrushes – any brush that feels comfortable will do, I personally use lower cost brushes since they end up getting used to push collage down

• Matte Medium: .My favourite adhesive. It is non-yellowing, doesn’t get cloudy and is easy to work with. Because it is a clear acrylic medium you can paint over any collage without issue.

THE REST

• Canvas : Level 3 Gallery Wrapped Heavy Duty Canvas from Michaels. You can find lots of great canvas options at all the locally owned art supply stores!