Mixed Media Printmaking Blog

Screen print on top of a Gelatin Plate Monotype

2010, fabric prints, screen printing / Linda Germain / August 23, 2012

The pile of gelatin prints on fabric were calling me. So I screened this tree on to several of them.

This is a thermofax screen print created with a black and white photo that I took back in 1978. It is an old apple tree on the hill behind the family homestead. The thermo fax process is great for converting high contrast images into screens for printing multiple images. If you are interested in learning more about this process in an online printmaking class then join the special interest group for thermofax printing.

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New Step in Making the Gelatin Plate for Printing

2010, gelatin plate care / Linda Germain / August 22, 2012

I am always searching the internet to see what other printmakers are doing with gelatin. I found a fun book by Susan Schwake, ART LAB for Kids and she lines the pan with plastic wrap for easy removal. I am giving it a try. The size of the pan and the wrap are a factor. The wrap needs to be bigger than the pan so that is hangs over the edge and holds the gelatin. I can’t wait to try and take it out of the pan. It is in the refrigerator hardening up. I have to wait a couple of hours.

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Simple Mark making tools – Gelatin Prints

2010, Gelatin plate print, mark making tools, stamping tools / Linda Germain / August 21, 2012

I am playing with some old film reels, round things, tops from shampoo containers and a bit of thin yarn to make marks in the ink on the gelatin plate.

©2012 linda germain – just having fun with my new camera – but these are stamps
made on cd case, with double stick carpet tape and caps and round foam bits

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8 Gelatin Printmaking Techniques

2010, gelatin print tips / Linda Germain / August 20, 2012

I just wrote to an artist friend, and I started listing some of the new techniques that I have learned in gelatin printmaking in the last 6 months or so.

Some of the things that I have been doing

printing on slippery poster board –

printing big by working in strips and rectangles on a large sheet with the 10 x 13 gelatin

The pre-inked stencil for the “picture” affect.

Using a photo reference – that makes it personal

Masking and taping for a finished look.

Charcoal handwriting transfer

Cutting up the gelatin into shapes for printing

Freezing the Gelatin for reuse

Wow! I have been busy. Well when it is fun time just flies. Most of these processes are in the picture above. Happy Printing!

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Mark making tools for Gelatin Prints

2010, fabric prints, mark making tools / Linda Germain / August 19, 2012

I can’t resist a visit to EXCL when I am in Lynn. It is a recycling center for creatives. I try to limit my self to stuff that I will use. But how do I know what I am going to use before hand? So this week I added these film canister things and other round things for making marks in the ink on the gelatin printing plate/pad. I used the red toy like a cookie cutter to make a circle of gelatin. See a print here.

So don’t give up on the gelatin plate that is starting to fall apart. Get out your cookie cutters and press out some shapes. Ink them up. Work into the ink and make some impressions. Happy Printing!

How to make a gelatin Plate for printmaking – the video

Quick video on the basics of gelatin printmaking

Gelatin printing artist trading cards – a short video

48 second slideshow of gelatin prints by linda germain and why she loves it.

Or Take the next gelatin printing workshop

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