Masking Stencils from Photos for Gelatin Printing

Cutting masking stencils for gelatin printmaking
cutting masking stencils for gelatin monotype printing

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!

Join me for the next session of Make Monotypes

 

4 thoughts on “Masking Stencils from Photos for Gelatin Printing”

  1. 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???

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