Here are a couple of gelatin plate monotype prints that I made with the masking stencils that I cut yesterday.
The little guys are from a photo that I took. As you can tell expressive body language and strong negative spaces make for interesting stencils. Think of the fantastic iPod ads from a few years back. Happy Printing!
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I teach an art class for adult cancer fighters. We love the gelatin print process. we are having one major problem, however. There is never any ink left on our print plate when we pull our masking stencil off the plate. It all sticks to our stencil/mask. It is such a disappointment! It’s sort of like missing half of the process. We have used numerous kinds of paper, cardstock, cardboard & plastic to cut our masks from–but alas, no luck. We had some luck cutting our mask out of stiff cotton fabric. do you have any advise for us???
Are you using the homemade plate? That makes a difference. I also use speedball water soluble block printing ink to print on sulphite paper. this video is one way to encourage the build up of ink on the back of the masking stencils. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI7hUAo9xpk&list=UUP72anTh8ZkibzISx2rLFeg
Hope this helps you.
The link about building up ink on the stencils does not work.
not sure what you mean. There is a video that is about ink build up here at the bottom of the page. http://www.lindagermain.com/workshops/videos/