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Tania Ahmed β˜† Gel Printing β˜† Mixed Media β˜† Art Journals
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Can anyone else relate?

I swear there is an art gremlin in my room that likes to mysteriously move my gel printing things all over the place 😭😭😭
You watched a video of someone gel printing and bu You watched a video of someone gel printing and buy a gel plate?

Is it still in it's packaging gathering dust, waiting to be opened for the first time?

Do you relate to any of these:

⋆ I bought a gel plate and haven't opened it for months.

⋆ I am overwhelmed by gel printing: too many techniques, supplies, and conflicting advice.

⋆ I keep getting muddy, disappointing prints and feel like I am β€œdoing it wrong.”

⋆ I have perfection-itis, and scared that my art isn't good enough.

⋆ I don't know how to use gel printing to express me: my style, my story.

⋆ I feel a disconnect between my inner voice and my art, and long to make something that actually matters.

⋆ Deep down, I doubt whether my creativity really counts.

Let me tell you a story: when the Gelli Arts gel plate came out in 2011, it was everywhere, it was the latest craze. I bought the gel plate ... and then never opened it πŸ™ˆ

I thought I didn't have the time, and the thought of using it overwhelmed me.

And when I did make my first prints, they looked nothing like the pretty pictures I saw online.

My paint was drying too fast, my colours looked like mud and my paper was sticking to my gel plate. I put it away and didn't touch it for years.

In 2018, recovering from burnout, I pulled my gel plate out again. By this time I had a second plate. I needed a creative outlet that didn't demand perfection from me. I really started paying attention to colour theory, techniques, reading books, blogs, watching tons of videos and making thousands of prints.

Slowly I got better, until I found a style that felt like me, the colours reflected me and made my heart sing. I made prints with textures and objects that were inspired by my roots, interests, hope and dreams.

I began to tell myself a new story: of how my art mattered.

That it was important for everyone to tell their own story in their own way by developing their own visual vocabulary.

And so:

StoryPrinter was born: the course i wish existed when i first started gel printing.

StoryPrinter: Gel Prints With Soul.

Available today for $150.

Three years in the making, and the course is still evolving with me and my students. 

After 8 weeks you will..
One of the questions I get asked about gel printin One of the questions I get asked about gel printing is: what do I do what all the pretty papers?

How many ways are there to use paper? As well as the obvious answers: my favouritest thing in the world is making journals with them.

This one was made from the prints I made for my first gel printing challenge a few years ago.

The book structure instructions are available inside StoryPrinter: Gel Prints With Soul, alomg with many many many more bonuses and a wealth of knowledge about everything and anything gel printing!

There are 4 kinds of journals and book structures included in the course along with reference lists for more ideas.

Comment STORY to get the link ✨️

#gelprint #gelplate #handmadebooks ##artjournal #mixedmediaart
Some people have a redemption arc. I have a gel pl Some people have a redemption arc. I have a gel plate.

If Netflix ever made a documentary about my life, this would be the pivotal scene: the woman who was burnt out, overthinking everything, convinced she wasn't "good enough for anything"... who picked up a gel plate and slowly, print by muddy print, found her way back to herself.

Dramatic? Absolutely. True? Also yes. πŸ˜…

Gel printing didn't just teach me clever techniques.

It gave me permission to make things that were imperfect, to play again, to turn my stories and memories into art that actually felt like me. Honouring my story, my roots and my hopes and dreams.

Now I help other people do the same.

I became a Gelli Arts Brand Ambassador, and I get to teach beautiful souls like you across the world. A hobby that unites us all πŸ’•

So if you've got a gel plate sitting in a box gathering dust and that feeling that you should be using it ... maybe this is your sign.

Comment STORY for my course:

Story Printer: Gel Prints With Soul.

Doors close THIS Sunday at midnight. πŸ’›

#gelprinting #gelliarts #mixedmediaart
Your story deserves to be seen, heard and honoured Your story deserves to be seen, heard and honoured πŸ’™

If you want to make your gel prints more meaningful and turn your memories, personal stories and symbols that inspire you into soulful art that feels like a love letter to yourself...

Then something special has just landed πŸ’•

A class designed for both beginner and experienced gel printers, demystifying gel printing and using ourselves as inspiration.

Comment STORY to get the link for STORY PRINTER: Gel Prints With Soul.

8 weeks with me, recorded lessons in HD, live Q&A sessions, colour palette tool, journal that is inspired by your roots, reflecting your hopes and dreams for the future.

Doors close on Sunday!

(aaaaahhhhhh! I'm so excited!!!!)

#gelliarts #gelprinting #mixedmediaart
A new way of thinking about gel printing? Over th A new way of thinking about gel printing?

Over the past three years, I've been on a journey to incorporate more of myself, my stories and my roots into my gel prints.

My gel plates have changed my life for the better and rescued me at a point in life where I was extremely burnt out and needed something that didn't demand perfection from me all the time.

I've reached thousands of you all over the world and get opportunities to teach and demonstrate the wonderful and ever evolving art of gel printing. 

And I am on a mission to get more people gel printing πŸ”₯

Gel printing is deeply restorative and a remedy for those who want to recover from perfection-itis, and who look at ordinary objects and find the extraordinary within simple textures, patterns and designs.

Join me inside StoryPrinter: Gel Prints With Soul today πŸ’•

Available today for $150, and the doors to StoryPrinter close this Sunday, and the next time they open it will be at a higher price.

Comment STORY to get the link in your inbox ✨️

#gelprint #gelplate #artjournal #monoprint #mixedmediaart
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