Amazing Gel Prints: Working With Stencils

This book covers gel printing with stencils in depth, focusing on working in layers in order to create gel prints with rich texture, depth, and intensity. Whether you use gel prints for collage, card making, or crafts, this book will elevate your prints and elevate your projects! Elizabeth St. Hilaire is an established author and collage artist who creates impressionistic collage paintings with tiny bits of torn, gel printed papers. St. Hilaire covers materials, storage, techniques, supplies, paint properties, color theory, and more. A complete navigation to using stencils and masks on your gel printing plate, this book is the ultimate guide to taking your gel printing to the next level!

Elizabeth St. Hilaire is an award winning full-time artist, art workshop instructor, and published author. Her unique mixed-media artwork is created from torn tidbits of hand-painted paper. St Hilaire's collages are collected and have been exhibited both nationally and internationally; images of her work are reproduced and available nationwide on wall canvas, household items, stationery, clothing, jewelry, and more. St Hilaire is a Signature Member of National Collage Society, holds a BFA from Syracuse University, and has been working in her medium for over 12 years. Her book, Painted Paper Art Workshop, became available through North Light books in 2016. St. Hilaire has five self-published books on her process, and has authored articles about her work in Cloth Paper Scissors, The Artists Magazine, and Acrylic Artist magazine. Her work has been featured in Southern Living magazine, The Cloth Paper Scissors Book: Techniques and Inspiration for Creating Mixed-Media Art, and Collage in All Dimensions by Gretchen Bierbaum. Best Selling author BJ Gallagher published a feature article about St. Hilaire and her collage artwork for the Huffington Post and Art Marketing Coach Alyson Stanfield featured Elizabeth on her pod cast series about full-time working artists. St. Hilaire enjoys painting en Plein Air and has participated in the Wekiva Paint Out (FL), New Smyrna Beach Paint Out (FL), and the Sedona Plein Air Festival (AZ). How do you rip and glue paper tidbits in the wind? St. Hilaire has a mixed media easel designed and manufactured in Italy to do just that!