Melva Bates:
Found a use for my used tea bags.
Melva Bates:
Found a use for my used tea bags.
Melva Bates:
Found a use for my used tea bags.
Melva Bates:
Gelli plate print onto a tea bag then doodled on top.
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Gelli printed tea bags.
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This is some Snail Mail I am preparing to send to a friend. The file has a lot of small mono prints inside.
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Bees knees ........ This is a gelli plate printed background with a drawing on top. I used a Pentel brush pen a Micron pen and a white Posca pen to finish off.
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Gelli print background with doodling on the top. I used a micron pen and marker pen to fill in the large area.
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This is my new iPad cover that is made from a Gelli print background then a coloured pencil drawing on the top.
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Started early on my Christmas Decorations. These are made from air dried clay.
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New gelli prints using my new small one.
Melva Bates:
New gelli prints using my new small one.
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Three pieces the fish were cut with a scroll cutter. Then placed on driftwood found at the beach. I painted that with acrylic paint.
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Here are some more of my wooden scroll cut pieces. I have used different paint techniques on them all. Just to see what happens.....
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This is another practice with the scroll cutter. I still have all my fingers. Thank goodness.
Melva Bates:
A friend has just let me borrow a scroll cutter yippeeee. This is my first try, with his help of course. Managed to keep all fingers intact. Raided my husbands bits for the eye. I'm so pleased with him.
Melva Bates:
This is a present for a friend. Watercolour background. Then I headed to my stash of Gelli prints. Still needs a little tweaking. Nearly there though.
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This is made up of quite few different Gelli Prints. Then highlighted with Gelly roll pens , white out pen then smudged with charcoal.
Melva Bates:
This is a intaglio-inspired gelli print. I got the idea from my new book Gelli Plate Printing by Joan Bess. I have used some of my stash of gelli prints on it also.......
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This is one of my Christmas cards that I made from one of my gelli prints from my stash. The idea was taken from a tutorial on Pinterest.
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This is an image transfer glued onto an old gelli print then it was glued on top of another gelli print. I then embellished it with strips of gelli print and used charcoal pencil and a stencil. Bit busy for me but enjoyed playing.
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This is a gelli print that I completed sometime ago. I decided to try and make into some Arti-stamps. Managed in the end after lots of sweat & tears. Now they are ready to send to some of my mail art friends.
Melva Bates:
This a a gelli print from my stash. I have used my coloured pencils & my Pentel brush pen. This seems to be how I like working at the moment.
