The Life Cycle of a Botanical Gel Print: Start to Finish

Описание: In this video, I will take you through the full life cycle of a botanical gel print on tissue—from the original printing process to how I use it in a finished mixed media piece.
All summer, I've been gathering and printing as many botanicals as possible because I only have a few months each year when I can collect these beautiful weeds. After a productive season, I have a lovely Stash built up, and now that it’s fall, it’s time to shift from creating these prints to actually using them in my mixed media work.
In this video, I’ll pick one of these tissues, show you how I created it with the gel plate, and then walk you through how I used it as a feature in this final piece. Let’s get started!

Here is the full video where these videos were created:
   • Playing with Positive and Negative  

This video goes into my process of painting over collage in more detail, including glazes and veils:
   • Gel Printing and Mixed Media Video #8 Addi...  

Supplies used in this video:
16x20 Gelli Arts Plate
Spectra Art Tissue
Golden Open Acrylic (for the gel printing part)
Fluid/Heavy Bodied acrylic for underpainting and finishing
Matte Medium

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Selecting the Tissue
02:17 Creating the Tissue
11:24 Choosing a Support
12:04 Underpainting
21:17 Building Up Layers
24:24 Attaching the Feature Tissue
33:07 Finishing It Up