Gelatin printmaking is a low tech printmaking process that can give you beautiful prints with out needing a big press or printmaking studio.
The printmaking secret is:
- willingness to let go of control
- ability to embrace the uniqueness of the gelatin process
- decision to make many prints
- learn to keep what you like and
- build on your strengths
This gelatin printmaking process is quite different than many printing techniques that require a printing press. It is:
- spontaneous
- immediate and
- unpredictable
If these are qualities that describe you, your art making process or even something you admire, then you may want to explore gelatin printmaking.
It is printing on a plate of Jello®. But you don’t want to eat it!
The gelatin is a soft and malleable surface that can hold the detailed impressions that you make in it with tools like, paper stencils, real grasses, and head held tools like potato mashers and bubble wrap.
If you would like some help getting started with the process or help finding your voice and developing control, then you are in luck.
Check out the current online printmaking classes.