Print & Play
Get your hands inky, pull back the paper and see what happens.
Taught by Anneliese Bates
Your gel plate is waiting. What if you actually used it?
- Your gel plate is gathering dust — you bought one, watched a video, felt quietly overwhelmed, and put it away
- You want to try something new but you overthink every creative decision
- You’ve never made a print in your life and don’t know where to start
- You want a creative practice that fits on your kitchen table
- You know the basics but you’re ready to push into layering, stencils, and complex colour work
- You want to make real, usable things — not just practice exercises
Print & Play is a complete gel plate printing course — 24 technique lessons across four modules that take you from your very first print all the way to layered personal work. Every lesson is designed to be watched and followed straight away. And the whole thing is built around one idea: you don’t need to overthink this. You just need to start.
See what you’ll create
24 lessons, 4 modules, and prints you never expected — all step-by-step with Anneliese.
A real creative journey. Not just a pile of techniques.
First Prints: The Foundations
Learn how your gel plate works, how to apply paint, and how to pull your very first print. Subtractive printing, household finds, and the magic of sponges.
Texture, Marks & Happy Accidents
Masks, stencils, stamps — and what happens when you combine all three. This is where the happy accidents really start.
Layering & Ghost Prints
Where gel printing gets addictive. From acrylic washes to Posca pens, inks to watercolour — build depth across layers.
Advanced Play: Colour, Stencils & Found Objects
Image transfer, foliage printing, gel medium. The final project is a printed tote bag, because your art should get to leave the studio.
Never heard of gel plate printing?
A gel plate is a simple thing. Squishy, reusable, fits on your kitchen table. You roll paint on it, press things in — leaves, lace, the back of a fork — and pull a print.
That’s where simple ends.
Because what comes off that plate is never quite what you expected. Colours shift. Layers change everything that came before. A ghost print — the faint leftover from a previous pull — can be the most beautiful thing on the table.
Every layer changes what came before. Knowing how to build on them, layer by layer, with intention? That’s the whole course.
“Anneliese’s teaching style is famously no-fuss. She breaks things down, skips the overwhelm, and pushes you to play and experiment rather than worry about getting it right.”
Everything you need to get printing
- 24 video lessons — detailed, well-edited, designed for your kitchen table
- Printable handouts — one for every lesson, with step-by-step notes you can keep at your side
- Beginner’s guide — everything you need to know before your first print
- FAQ & troubleshooting guide — because every printer hits a bump at some point
- Lifetime access — come back to it whenever you want, on any device
- Fully downloadable — videos and handouts, yours to keep
- Fully captioned in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Dutch
Anneliese Bates
Anneliese has been teaching mixed media for over 20 years — live workshops, one-to-one sessions, and online with Wanderlust. She’s worked with pretty much every medium going.
And yet, when she first picked up a gel plate, her reaction was: why do I even need this? Then she started pulling prints — and understood immediately. The layering, the textures, the results you simply cannot get any other way.
This course is the result of everything she’s learned since that moment. Her teaching style is famously no-fuss: she breaks things down, skips the overwhelm, and pushes you to play and experiment rather than worry about getting it right.
Everything inside Print & Play
Questions? We’ve got answers.
Every layer changes what came before.
24 lessons. 4 modules. Over 5 hours of playful, hands-on gel plate printing with Anneliese Bates. Printable handouts, lifetime access, and permission to make a beautiful mess.
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