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Gelli Printing Series - Week One
Debbie Abshear
Gelli Printing
Cost: $50.00
Workshop
All Skill Levels
Thursday–Thursday
Meets daily
9:00 AM–1:00 PM
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Thu, March 06, 2025
Check the class/workshop list for future offerings.
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Come learn how to gelli print papers!
It is highly recommended that students sign up for all 4 classes. If you don’t have any prior experience with gel printing, the first class is a pre-requisite. The classes are designed so that the work that is created each week, will be used to create further explorations and projects.
CLASS ONE
Introduction to gel plate printing, we will be creating background prints to use in Class Two
-What is it? How do I use it?
-Care of your gel plate
-How to set up your printing space
-What kinds of paint work well on the gel plate
-How to apply paint to your gel plate using a brayer
-Blending more than one color on the plate
-Other ways to apply and remove paint
-Kinds of paper you can use on a gel plate
-How to ‘pull’ prints
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About Debbie Abshear
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Debbie Abshear is an artist specializing in landscapes, seascapes and abstracts. Her chosen medium is watercolor but is also known to use acrylics and inks in her work.
In February through March of 2025, she was honored to exhibit 40 paintings in a solo show at the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California.
She has exhibited at the National Watercolor Society, Santa Paula Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Fallbrook Art Center, California State University of Dominguez Hills, Muckenthaler Cultural Arts Center and at the Watercolor West Exhibition held in the City of Brea. She shares a booth with her husband at Avenue called ‘Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles’.
Debbie was honored to be selected by the State Department to exhibit two of her watercolors in the American Embassy in Mumbai through the ‘Artist in Embassies’ program. The watercolors were chosen by the ambassador to be on loan to the embassy for two years.
Debbie earned her Signature Membership in the Watercolor West organization and was honored to be included in the Northlight Publishers book, ‘Splash 15’, featuring the best 100 watercolor artists of the year.
Debbie regularly teaches workshops and offers artist demonstrations to art associations around the Southern California.
Instructor website: www.debbieabshear.com/
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