I had a student in the last session of Make Monotypes, who explored the vegetarian option to gelatin.   She inspired me to experiment with the agar agar as well.  It is a seaweed based “gelatin.”  I can not report that I perfected the recipe or the plate.  I do have a printing plate of agar agar that has lasted several weeks.  I added some glycerin to make it stronger, but is still pretty fragile.

Today’s print is 5″ x 7″.  I used the speedball water soluble block printing inks and a few stencils and stamping tools.

Happy Printing,

Linda

We often share our best work and then folks think, “Oh, she just pulls perfect prints all the time. ”  Well I know that is not true for me and that I have to make many prints to get one or two that I like.  I work with the idea of, “Try it and see what happens.”

So today is  day 2 of Make My Mark in May.   I made a thermo fax screen of a line drawing that I did a few weeks back.  Then I dug through some monotype prints to find one that might make a good foundation for the screen print.

I was looking for something “quiet” and light, so it would let the line drawing be the focus.

If you think you might like to embrace this way to creating and exploring printmaking then, you might want to check out my online course, Make Monotypes.  Registration for the next session opens Wednesday, May 7th.  Don’t wait this class fills up fast. Email me if you have questions.