Botanical Prints with a Gellie Plate
Adult Course | Registration opens 3/4/2025 7:00 AM MST
This user friendly printmaking process with a “gellie” plate is fun, intuitive and immensely satisfying. Using acrylic paint as our ink we will create prints with plant clippings- foliage, blooms, roots- on a variety of papers. Learning objectives include: Be familiarized with the gellie plate process and several basic techniques that produce good results, including layering and a simple hinge registration. Students will also learn how to glue a print on a wood substrate.
Participants will select one or two prints to adhere to small (6x6”) wooden art panels for finished ready to hang art pieces. The creative possibilities are amazing and endless! Join us and take home two finished botanical art panels.
- Materials list for students:
A small set of acrylic paints, open acrylics recommended Acrylic paint extender if desired
Variety of papers to print on
Roll of blue tape
Roll of Freezer paper
Roll of paper towels
Nitrile gloves
if desired Scissors to cut papers/stems
Handi-wipes
Botanicals from their own garden, park or grocery store
Provided by Victoria/ASLD:
Gellie plates, brayers, plastic palette knives, washing bins, soap, brushes, rags, two small wooden panels per student, a limited amount of paper and glue and some botanicals will be provided. I will also use everything on the student list for my demos.
Victoria Eubanks
Victoria Eubanks is a visual artist and educator. She brings 30 years of graphic design sensibility, 15 years of fine art making and extraordinary talent to her classrooms and studio. Victoria mixes media—combining encaustic medium, cold wax, oil paint, printmaking or photography in a variety of ways. Her art contains intended imperfections—lopsided rounds, rough sgrafitto lines, uneven repetition, organic shapes and the occasional recognizable object. She believes the inevitable human inconsistencies connect the artist and the viewer.
Victoria’s work hangs in private and corporate art collections and has been included in over 60 exhibitions. Her practice has received multiple awards and recognition. She is a long time member of the MIX co-op, her works can been seen at Niza Knoll Gallery, Gallery 1261, and Framed Image Gallery in Denver and online at VictoriaEubanksArt.com.
Victoria is also involved with multiple community outreach programs, giving back through her art. She is passionate about teaching, her philosophy is to provide a safe space, where individuals can learn, explore and enjoy their own art making.
VictoriaEubanksArt.com