Paint Pens & Gelli Plate! | Art Journal with Jane Davenport

[@janedavenport]

Storytime Paint pens: Wonderland: janedavenport.com/shop/supplies/paint-pens/storytime-paint-pens-wonderland-set/

[@andreamiller1550]

Wow that is just incredible!

[@elizabethlee007]

It's like watching magic happen! Love this 💕

[@deetoms8542]

Love that gelli plate technique and how slim and easy to manage that your gelli plates are!

[@a.o9656]

I finally did a haul and got the gelli plate from your site. I've been rewatching these videos over and over as I waited for them to come back in stock. I'm so so excited.

[@juliesimmons4102]

Great video! Love both the Gelli Plate and Storytime Paint Pens. Can’t wait to try this!

[@dizzydevi8019]

Your so good at everything .... Can't wait to get those pens ..and gelli plate .. I have everything else of yours lol..... Everything .... Love your products and love you 💗

[@cathyquilts2609]

Jane Davenport enjoyed this tutorial very much! Audition is the perfect term for these movie starlets !👸🏼

[@monicaflick3354]

You do such a good job, I almost think I can do it !!! Thank you Jane!!!💋😘👍👩‍🎨⭐️🌈🧜🏻‍♀️🧚‍♀️

[@camillakobbevik256]

👏🏻😃👏🏻Thank you Jane!💓🤗💓

[@tdoran]

I've not seen anyone else do this with a gelli plate - amazing!

[@kerbeare]

This is so gorgeous and inspirational. Thank you.❤❤

[@HA-db1so]

Love your girl, and what a great way to get the creative juices flowing!!! Thank you for demoing your STORYtime markers, they look awesome!!!

[@365designs]

This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen!!!!!!!!

[@sallyberto9891]

Thank you so much Jane. Its amazing what you have created.

[@suefalls1600]

Love this technique ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

[@kimberlydemarzo170]

Wonderful! You make it look so easy! I think I'd like to try it sometime. Def on my list. Tks a bunch Jane!

[@tracyleecornish5398]

Thank You Jane so much fun!!

[@nancybochsler8947]

I just received my Storytime pens a few weeks ago...haven't had the chance to use them yet. Am so very excited to try this technique! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us.....you're so inspiring!

[@ireneryll7457]

I just love this Jane!💕

[@alexandriadiaz]

Thank u Jane!

[@PlumGarden14]

I haven’t got the storytime paint pens yet (but I will) - I do have posca pens though and wondered if I could get the same effect? I am itching to practice ❤️ love your amazing creativity

[@janedavenport]

All you can do is test and see. - I use Storytime! I love them!

[@jjolifine]

I love it! Right after I got my JD Gelli Plate (my first time Gel Printing), and had done a few sessions of printing, I bought a set of acrylic paint pens to see how they would work! These acrylic paint pens are sooo much better than the old oil ones were!! One question: you always leave your Gelli Plates down on the surface for a long time - from minutes to overnight. How do you avoid the paper sticking to the plate and pulling off or ripping in places? That’s been my biggest challenge! I was thinking while watching this that Printing over an acrylic surface might work better than paper, but I’m pretty sure I saw you leave a plate overnight in your JD big Journal (we need more of those, please!!). Any tips (from Jane and/or anyone here!)? Thank you!! xoxoxo 🎈

[@janedavenport]

In this video I don’t leave it for long - just a few minutes. Experiment with how much paint you are putting down to avoid ripping.

[@jjolifine]

Jane Davenport Thank you for answering, Jane!! I’m not sure if you mean that less paint is better or more paint. You used very little on this one and only left it for a few minutes, whereas the ones you left overnight you had thrown a lot onto the plate! That seems intuitive. So much with Gelli Printing is trial and error. The temperature in my studio in the summer made the paint dry much faster (although it was also humid... who knows how that effected the paint?) than now as Autumn sets in here (in the suburbs outside NYC). The density of the paint is also a factor. But no matter what I’ve tried, if I’ve let the paint completely dry with the paper (and I’ve tried several, mostly cardstock... also deli paper, but I take that off quickly!) then it sticks in sections. I didn’t notice the problem for the first few weeks, but as I used the plate more and more, it happened more and more. I’ve tried cleaning and conditioning the plate with baby oil (and the Ranger stuff which is basically just overpriced unscented baby oil, as far as I can tell!) because I thought maybe the plate was drying out from use and from the heat in August, but it hasn’t really helped and, as you point out in this video, too much oil can keep certain mediums from performing the way I want. I doubt you will get the time to read this reply, but if anyone out there reads this and has conquered a problem with paper not coming cleanly off the plate (Jane’s pulls are, frankly, amazing! If I could pull one print that perfect I would be on Cloud 9 all day!), please reply and give me any tips you have!! Again, any time I’ve let the paint dry between the paper and the plate, the paper comes off in places (I should examine those places to see what might be different about them!) and sometimes stays attached to the rest of the sheet, but pulls a layer of paper up into a kind of bubble. Does anyone think it makes a difference whether you pull the paper or the plate - maybe being in the journal helped anchor the paper? Maybe I should be trying watercolor paper instead of cardstock despite the issues that Jane mentions in this video (I could try hot pressed so it would be pretty flat)? To gesso the paper first or not to gesso? So many questions and possibilities and a lot of experiments to try! Thank you so much to all of you!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[@bbooobb567]

Hi Jane, love watching you play with your Gelli Plate and have learnt so much. The only thing is the few times I have used a face to trace it’s been yours from your books. Just wanted to know if that’s allowed and if not I’m sorry. I’m practicing don’t have magazines to trace.

[@janedavenport]

anything is allowed when you are practicing your Art!

[@bbooobb567]

Jane Davenport thank you so much thought I crossed the art line 🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️

[@johanssonstudio]

Fantastic! How did you make the book?

[@janedavenport]

It's park of the LayerCake workshop - you can find the details at janedavenport.com - lot's of fun!

[@dizzydevi8019]

Can you use mermaid markers on gelli plate ... Have you done it ? How did it go ?

[@janedavenport]

you can try! watersoluble media on a Gelli plate has it's challenges, but not impossible!

[@KnottyCeltic]

What keeps the pastels in place? Do you seal them at some point?

[@janedavenport]

You can seal with a spray fixative if you like. I usually don't! The colours stay put because of the fine milling and the way they are applied.

[@shannonwooters3443]

Jane does your art journals contain any cold press or hot press papers? I know there is a variety

[@janedavenport]

It has smooth surface on one side, and a cold press surface on the other - so both! ❤️