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!

Fabulous Florals This book features 88-pages of instruction and inspiration for drawing, painting, and collaging florals from life. Flowers are the forever gift for everyone and every occasion, they are a great way to express your emotions with someone special-why not paint them?

Learn how to paint your own collage paper, simplify shapes, tear with and without white edges, glue down flat without wrinkling, and more Written, photographed, and designed by Elizabeth St. Hilaire (c)2020

Painterly Gel Prints offers 80 pages of Gel Plate printing fun! Step-by-step instructions for creating painterly prints that can be used in collage, gift cards, gift wrap, mobiles, and more. Updated second edition includes some new tips and tricks, updated photos, and more!

Pet and Animal Portraits in Collage includes 90 pages of instruction and inspiration for creating your own hand-painted paper collage artwork. Learn how to paint your own papers (through a variety of techniques), how to tear (with and without white edges), and how to glue your papers down (without cockling) over an acrylic underpainting to create an impressionistic, painterly collage!

Fashion Plate Portraits

This book features 88-pages of instruction and inspiration for drawing, painting, and collaging mixed media fashion-style portraits over an encaustic effect ephemera background created in acrylic medium. Learn how to paint your own collage paper, simplify shapes, tear with and without white edges, glue down flat without wrinkling, apply gold leaf, sketch in pastel, apply collage, use mixed media mark making tools, seal and varnish your work, and more!

You can create beautiful art with amazing depth and texture, using easy collage techniques and paper you paint yourself. Popular workshop instructor Elizabeth St. Hilaire makes it fun and simple no matter what your skill level

Start with materials you probably already have--fluid acrylics, stencils, a few household items and paper--and hand-paint your personalized paper palette using basic techniques anyone can do.

Then move through each step of composing your own work of art. You'll find beautiful, meaningful examples of the how and why on every page. You'll learn how to: develop your composition, how to work with simple shapes, important lessons on value and much more.

- More than 30 techniques for painting your own decorative papers
- Step-by-step instructions for creating your own painted paper collage-from underpainting and directional ripping and tearing to auditioning your papers and combining collage with mixed media
- A spectacular gallery of paper paintings to inspire and dazzle--still lifes, figures, animals and landscapes