gelatin print tips

©linda germain 2008 3.5″ x 2.5″ gelatin print on book page

Sometimes simple works, like walking instead of driving a car.  As I walk to the studio, I see stuff that inspires me, like rusted metal and blocks of wood.  This gelatin plate print is

1. on an old book page
2. that I over printed with white first to increase the value contrast and
3. simply pressed with a block of wood 3 times
4. and layer down 3 threads and
5. made the print.

©2012 linda germain gelatin print on a book page aprox 5″ x 7″

Summary of helpful posts about gelatin printmaking –

1. Printing with tissue paper
2. One way to create focus on a chaotic gelatin print
3. Change the size of your gelatin plate
4. Cut up the gelatin plate and play
5. Beauty and benefits of printing with old cracked gelatin
6. Combine a gelatin print with a collograph plate
7. What is a newspaper pick up?
8. Gelatin Prints on Cotton fabric
9. Temperature, inks and gelatin printing
10. Just keep Printing
11. One way to reconstitute your old gelatin

1. It is thin and super absorbent
2. It is inexpensive
3. It picks up lots of details
4. It can be collaged into other work very easily.

1. The final composition in black is pleasing.  Lay down the stencils so they create a design that you like.
2. The black is very black
3. The underlying inks are dry
4. The underlying “chaos” does not have big white shapes
5. The underlying “chaos’ is mostly textural