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Gelatin Monotype Print Making For Beginners - Step-by-step instructions for using glass, gelatin, Gelli Arts, Gel Press, & Speedball for making monotypes
64 Pages
Monotypes are stunningly beautiful, amazingly fun, mindfully relaxing, and suitable to old and young, beginner and expert. A monotype is a unique printing expression made from a flat surface. You can make monotypes from a home-made gelatin round or from any plexiglass or glass sheets you have lying around the house. If you wish, you can buy pre-made monoprinting surfaces from Gelli Arts, Gel Press, Speedball, and other vendors. Really, you can use just about any paint-resistant flat surface for monoprinting which can easily be cleaned afterwards.
On that chosen surface you paint, swirl, fingerpaint, stamp, design, and play with the colors. When your design is complete, you then lay a piece of paper onto the paint in order to capture its essence. And then you begin again. Each new expression brings fresh life to your creativity.
Monotypes are a wonderful way to reduce stress, to brainstorm, to explore your creativity, and to simply breathe in the beauty of every passing moment. It is a pure exercise in mindfulness.
This book has everything you need to get you on the road to making beautiful items for family, friends, and for sale. It is intended for raw beginners who need to learn the terminology and basic techniques involved. It provides supply lists, glossaries, and more.
I’d love to hear feedback on the book!
All proceeds from sales of this book support kids-in-arts programs.
Monotypes are stunningly beautiful, amazingly fun, mindfully relaxing, and suitable to old and young, beginner and expert. A monotype is a unique printing expression made from a flat surface. You can make monotypes from a home-made gelatin round or from any plexiglass or glass sheets you have lying around the house. If you wish, you can buy pre-made monoprinting surfaces from Gelli Arts, Gel Press, Speedball, and other vendors. Really, you can use just about any paint-resistant flat surface for monoprinting which can easily be cleaned afterwards.
On that chosen surface you paint, swirl, fingerpaint, stamp, design, and play with the colors. When your design is complete, you then lay a piece of paper onto the paint in order to capture its essence. And then you begin again. Each new expression brings fresh life to your creativity.
Monotypes are a wonderful way to reduce stress, to brainstorm, to explore your creativity, and to simply breathe in the beauty of every passing moment. It is a pure exercise in mindfulness.
This book has everything you need to get you on the road to making beautiful items for family, friends, and for sale. It is intended for raw beginners who need to learn the terminology and basic techniques involved. It provides supply lists, glossaries, and more.
I’d love to hear feedback on the book!
All proceeds from sales of this book support kids-in-arts programs.
68 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2017
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Lisa Shea
514 books469 followersLisa Shea is a fervent fan of honor, loyalty, and chivalry. She brings to life worlds where men and women stand shoulder to shoulder, steady in their desire to make the world a better place for all. Most of her profits are donated to support battered women's shelters.
Lisa's works are all cleanly written with no explicit intimacy and little language. They are suitable for teens and up.
Lisa has written a wide range of fiction stories. She has medieval romances, modern murder mystery novels, sci-fi adventures, Scottish regency time travel romances, dystopian stories, 1800s-era black-Indian novellas, and Blackstone Valley mysteries.
In short stories, there's a thirty-one part story-a-day mini mystery series set in Salem, Massachusetts through the month of October 2014. There's a time travel series, a Biblical-era series, a zoo mystery series, an art museum mystery series, a diner mystery series with an Asperger's heroine, a romantic proposal series, three sci-fi and two contemporary shorts.
On the non-fiction side, Lisa has written nearly 100 books. There are low carb books, relationship books, green living, journaling, ASP programming, sleep and dreams, wine, wedding and courtship traditions, Melville poetry, and history. There is also a collection of books on self-help topics like working from home, reducing stress, yoga, meditation, using Twitter, running an author signing, and conquering a fear of spiders.
Lisa also writes poetry.
Lisa has thousands of pages online to help aspiring authors learn how to develop time management, write that book, lay it out, and get it published. Visit LisaShea.com for all the details, and free to email with questions!
Namaste.
Lisa's works are all cleanly written with no explicit intimacy and little language. They are suitable for teens and up.
Lisa has written a wide range of fiction stories. She has medieval romances, modern murder mystery novels, sci-fi adventures, Scottish regency time travel romances, dystopian stories, 1800s-era black-Indian novellas, and Blackstone Valley mysteries.
In short stories, there's a thirty-one part story-a-day mini mystery series set in Salem, Massachusetts through the month of October 2014. There's a time travel series, a Biblical-era series, a zoo mystery series, an art museum mystery series, a diner mystery series with an Asperger's heroine, a romantic proposal series, three sci-fi and two contemporary shorts.
On the non-fiction side, Lisa has written nearly 100 books. There are low carb books, relationship books, green living, journaling, ASP programming, sleep and dreams, wine, wedding and courtship traditions, Melville poetry, and history. There is also a collection of books on self-help topics like working from home, reducing stress, yoga, meditation, using Twitter, running an author signing, and conquering a fear of spiders.
Lisa also writes poetry.
Lisa has thousands of pages online to help aspiring authors learn how to develop time management, write that book, lay it out, and get it published. Visit LisaShea.com for all the details, and free to email with questions!
Namaste.
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March 30, 2020
Very Good
This is a very basic introduction to monoprinting, but it does not pretend to be otherwise. If you are a complete beginner to the subject, you will find this short book very helpful. In particular, it has an excellent recipe for making your own permanent gemstone plate of you can't afford a commercial, ready made plate. The author gives very clear step by step instructions. Whilst you will find the book quite limiting of you are already experienced in making monoprints, it's worth buying of only because all the proceeds raised by the book go to support a children's art charity.
This is a very basic introduction to monoprinting, but it does not pretend to be otherwise. If you are a complete beginner to the subject, you will find this short book very helpful. In particular, it has an excellent recipe for making your own permanent gemstone plate of you can't afford a commercial, ready made plate. The author gives very clear step by step instructions. Whilst you will find the book quite limiting of you are already experienced in making monoprints, it's worth buying of only because all the proceeds raised by the book go to support a children's art charity.
December 23, 2017
A very basic introduction to this type of monoprinting, this is about a ten minute read. I have to say that the only thing I learned is that Americans call mounts "mats", that was a bit of a wtf moment.
October 19, 2018
A little too simple.
This book stated the obvious. It didn’t give enough useful information or help to do the printing. There were too many words and not enough diagrams or illustrations.
This book stated the obvious. It didn’t give enough useful information or help to do the printing. There were too many words and not enough diagrams or illustrations.
April 22, 2023
A How To book for beginners
If you want to be creative but don't feel "talented" monotype making might be for you. This book covers everything you need to know to be successful.
If you want to be creative but don't feel "talented" monotype making might be for you. This book covers everything you need to know to be successful.
November 22, 2024
Explains the process well
Very brief but effective summary for Monotype.
I liked it. You might like it too. Kindle Unlimited nice for these quick reads
Very brief but effective summary for Monotype.
I liked it. You might like it too. Kindle Unlimited nice for these quick reads
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