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Must Have Art Supplies, Tools & Resources For Monoprinting (Gelli Printing) on Gel Plates
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items This curated recommended supplies list and inspirational resources are for beginner artists and hobbyists taking up monoprinting on gel plates.
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Great book for beginners or if you're looking for inspiration in monoprint layering.
Gel Plate Printing: Guide to Layered Art
This tool is a GAME CHANGER for artists. It allows you to create a database of your custom colors so you never lose a paint colour recipe again.
Acrylic Paint Mixer (NEW) - Build Your Custom Color Palette
Gel Printing Prompts & Inspiration
Daily Prompts GelliArts March Printing Challenge
Ideas and inspiration for creating monoprints. Perfect for beginners.
Gelli Arts Blog: Monoprinting Lesson Plans
The perfect place to start your Gel Printing adventure. Learn the basics of gel printing, caring for your plate and projects to get you started.
Start Printing Here! - Gel Printing Basics & Projects
The top gel printing techniques to try with your gel plate. It's fun practice.
10 Gel Printing Techniques & Tips | Beginner’s Guide - Gel Press
Must try techniques for gel printing from artists and educators.
5 Remarkable Gel Plate Printing Techniques for You To Master
Gel Printing Supplies
Artist wet strength tissue paper or tea bag paper is a versatile medium which can be used in mixed media art, print making, collages and more. It's thin, yet strong and pulls amazing prints from Gel Printing Plates. A must have for monoprinting.
Artist Wet Strength Teabag Paper
Basics Acrylic Paints are a great student quality paint for gel printing with a huge range of vibrant and muted colours. High quality and mixes well to make custom colours.
Liquitex Basics Acrylic Colors
A must have paper on your monoprinting supplies list. This versatile paper is excellent with multiple media types, such as acrylic, watercolours, ink, markers and more.
XL® Mixed Media
Strathmore Tracing Paper pulls vibrant prints off the gel plate. A must have in your monoprinting suplies.
Strathmore Tracing Paper
Express yourself in your gelli printing with a wide range of versatile high quality acrylic paints from Golden Artists Colors. These professional quality paints are highly pigmented and make stunning gel prints.
Golden Artist Acrylics – Professional Acrylic Paints for Artists
Speedball Printmaking Paper is suitable for all printmaking techniques. This paper accepts quite a bit of paint, so a great option for pulling gel prints.
Speedball® Printmaking Pad - Michaels Canada
Gel Printing Tools
They have high quality gel plates which produce great prints. This brand offers various sizes to meet your needs and are a valuable addition to your monoprinting supplies.
Gel Printing Plates for Monoprinting & Image Transfer | Gelli Arts® | Gelli Arts
This is a high quality soft rubber brayer ideal for spreading (rolling) paint on a gel plate for monoprinting. I especially like that it does not have a hood over the roller, so paint doesn't gunk up and cleans up easily.
Speedball Brayer For Monoprinting
Excellent tools for adding texture to your monoprint art prints. Each tool has 3 textured sides, giving you lots of textured variety. Try these in your layering for more unique interesting prints.
3-Pack Gelli Arts Mini Printing Tools
Stencils are a MUST for monoprinting. They are excellent to use in layering monoprints. Choose your favourite stencils for printmaking and you'll love your prints.
Stencils And Templates For Painting
Stencils and Masks are MUST-HAVES for Gelli Printing / Monoprinting. Joggles offers high quality reusable, unique masks and stencils.
Joggles 9" x 12" Stencils & Masks
It's a smooth, comfortable to use, high quality tool for evenly distributing pressure to achieve gorgeous prints from gel plates.
Speedball Block Printing Baren - 4 Inch
Such a cool, innovative and fun tool to capture textures around your home or your community; to use in your monoprinting and other arts & crafts projects. Then you simply heat and reuse on another pattern/texture to create unique, interesting art...
Simon Hurley create. Stamping Foam 3" X 4.25"
This is one of my favourite go-to papers to pull quality prints from my gel plates.
Hammermill Premium Color Copy 100lb 8.5x11 White 250 Sheets
Gel Press is a quality brand gel plate. Great for beginners and artists.
Gel Press Monoprinting Plates 8x10 & 5x7