Art Camp 2018 - Gel Press Round 3

This is our third year of Lauren & I playing with Gel Press Printing at our New Jersey Art Camp (aka playing with art supplies at her house).  For my birthday, Lauren bought me a set of the R&F Opaque Oil-based Pigment Sticks that Sally MacDonald assured would produce successfull Fashion Magazine Transfers ... but alas we failed. 

We could see the lovely print on our Gel Press surface ... but we couldn't get it to pick-up on the paper.  Here are the only two reasonable prints I achieved from the technique.  At least we were doing it together ... and failing together ... so we didn't get nearly as frustrated if we had been failing alone.

Of course we didn't let that stop us ... Lauren moved on to other play with the oil sticks, and I moved on to playing with paints.

I had several large new stencils from Carabelle Studio I wanted to try ... but I mostly became obsessed with Carabelle Studio Art Mask Large - Collection of Circles (Accumulation de Ronds).

 

When I Gel Print, I tend to do a variation on a theme ... and clearly I buy my paints from the same family too ... I need to add some reds and greens to my color palette.

Next I moved on to Darkroom Door Large Polka Dot Stencil with the same paints (mostly on white cardstock but a few texty pages).

 

 

I really felt like I needed more primary colors, so I borrowed some red paint from Lauren (note to self, buy red paint).

I had fun printing on some vintage papers, water color paper and even some index cards using some zig zags and dots.

Seriously, I'm not sure there is a more therapeutic creative process than printing layers upon layers ... and doing it with your crafty besty (who will oooh and ahhhh with you as you pull magical prints) is the best.

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[KatheD]

woohoo - Stef & Lauren's annual art camp is one of my favorite vicarious vacations! thanks so much for sharing, again :)