This week we are concentrating on the Gelli Arts Printing Plate.  There are a lot of great resources on how to use this product with traditional acrylic paints.  But I wanted to show you a technique that is unique and something completely different — using the Gelli plate with alcohol inks!

There is a trick to this – and it’s a simple household item that makes it work: alcohol-free gel hand sanitizer.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Our ‘gel medium’ for this technique is literally hand sanitizer.  But the important thing is to use alcohol-free hand sanitizer, so that it doesn’t compete with, or interfere with the alcohol inks.

So the basic toolkit is:

Now you could use alcohol inks from Copic (Various reinkers) or Ranger, or Viva Decor’s Marble ink.  Any of these will work.  I choose Copic’s for their translucency and the wide variety of colors.

These items, and some cardstock are all you need.  You’ll see some interesting mark-making tools in the video that follows.  The main concern is that you don’t use anything sharp on the surface of the Gelli plate.  Sponges, Q-tips, paint brushes are all good.

Take a look at the video in which I create three different projects using my Gelli Alcohol Shots technique:

Here are the three projects, shown on the video:

I’m looking forward to your questions and artwork.