Gelatin Printing with Old Gelatin

2010, gelatin print tips / /
linda germain gelatin plate print
delicate grass
Would you consider gelatin printing with old gelatin?  Don’t throw away your old and decaying gelatin plate.  I love to use it when it starts to get all the little holes and cracks in it.
I can’t control how it falls apart.  So sometimes it decays in a beautiful way and other times not so much.  I like to do a lot of newsprint pick ups to absorb the slime and to get the plate ready for  printing.
In the print above I used Daniel Smith water soluble Block Printing ink, blue with some black.  I made the circles and the lines by “stamping” into the inked plate.  Stamping lifts off some of the ink.  I think I use a dress pattern wheel to make the dotted lines.
The white grasses where created by placing the grass on the plate.  Notice that the grass is very thin and creates interesting negative space.  Then place the paper on top and print with hand pressure. All the little holes, the subtle changes in blue/black color where created by the decaying gelatin plate.
If you would like to explore making and working with a gelatin plate over time, then you may be interested in the next session of Make Monotypes.  Check out the details here.

 

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Gelatin Print with a Collagraph Plate

2010, gelatin print tips / /
©2010 linda germain
gelatin plate print aprox 4″ x 6″
This print shows the great detail that I can get with the gelatin plate printing process.  The texture in the background is created by stamping the surface of the inked gelatin plate with a collograph plate.  The collograph plate is simply a cd covered with bits of masking tape.  The image of  the girl is simply a paper stencil.  I coat the stencils with matt medium so they last longer.   More gelatin printing information. Enjoy!

 

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Simple book for fun

2010, book arts / /
Simple book with flaps and folded pages
© 2011 linda germain
© linda germain
approx 2.5″ by 3.5″ when all folded up
After working on the farm on this rainy day, I get to the studio and check my email and blog and happily find a post by Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord She has a great webstite Making books with Children and has several books on the subject.  So I just had to try this folded flap book she calls the I am….book.  I grabbed some papers and followed her great instructions and discovered why I might be working with birds in my latest series.  Fun Fun Fun.

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