I don’t know if many would call each of the papers themselves successes, but I had fun and I learned. And, again, I’ve invited you along to see the my process, my experiments, and my missteps; the papers that turned out gorgeous… or not so much.
This week I made homemade masks from cardstock and the plastic film from gel-plate packaging. I learned a lesson about using wet-strength tissue paper on the silicone mat, and tried rice paper for the first time. And had lots of fun with lots of layers.
As mentioned in the video, I LOVE these scissors. I bought a two-pack several years ago when I worked in a preschool. And did a lot of cutting. A lot of cutting. And I keep using both pairs. One has more paint than the other. amzn.to/4bdP8ae
Also as mentioned, I recently received my second Gel Press gel plate value pack (5x7 & 8x10). It’s still the best value I’ve found, and there’s nothing wrong with mine, I just wanted to be able to film two things of the same size at the same time. amzn.to/3JNIMlC
Here’s the pair of glass cutting boards in sizes perfect to set my gel plates on amzn.to/3UJzIVv
And Ranger gel plate storage tin (SO CONVENIENT) amzn.to/3WpxP1s
My beloved Speedball Red Baron baren amzn.to/3WoJEF1
I haven’t yet found a brayer I LOVE and haven’t wanted to spend a lot of money on them. This is the first set I got, and they were decent: amzn.to/4dpmOmW
I typically buy my Liquitex products from Blick Art Materials. Their prices are cheaper than Amazon. But there is usually a minimum order amount for free shipping so I’ll also include the Liquitex Amazon store link below also. My limited palette colors are quinacridone magenta, phthalo blue, cadmium yellow medium hue, and Payne’s gray.
Liquitex Basics paints shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=266832...
Liquitex Professional acrylic inks
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Liquitex gloss medium shareasale.com/m-pr.cfm?merch...
Mars Black Liquitex Basics fluid acrylic
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The Liquitex Amazon store
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In this video I also used
heavy cardstock
a silicone pastry brush
yarn
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00:22 Torn paper texture on the gel plate
00:44 New gel plate? Make some masks!
05:28 Comparing the silicone mat to the gel plate for this mask process
07:11 Playing with more mask layers on rice paper
10:59 Marbleized effect on the silicone mat… beware of wet-strength tissue paper
13:23 (Bubble) Wrapping it up with more layered fun
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