Lucky Dip Art let’s me tell a story or communicate an emotion. To achieve this I use various techniques.
You can get your hands on this series of Lucky Dip Art at Central Flea on Sunday 11th January 2026.
For this week’s Lucky Dip Art I used the mono printing technique using a Gelli plate. After applying ink to a Gelli plate, you pop a piece of paper on top and add pressure then lift off the paper. The paper will remove all the ink that was on the Gelli plate.
In this series, I removed some ink from the Gelli using a plate (made from an old pizza box) just before placing the paper on top.
I deliberately made the corrugation run in different direction. This created texture in a cross hatch manner. As I used the plates they became bogged with ink and behaved more like a stamp rather then simply just lifting the ink away.
As the ink was water based – the carboard softened a bit. I sorted that out with a blast from my shed hair dryer.
As the layers of ink built up on the card, the prints came out differently.
I feel that the end results are visually beautiful and I hope bring joy to the viewer and future owners of these small bits of art.
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