Gelatin plate print

I have a fresh new gelatin plate and I am just playing with pulling prints.

It is amazing how mediative the process is. I love how fast I can pull a stack of prints.

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I am playing with a few tools:

• gelatin and glycerin plate
• speedball ink
• brayers
• bristle brushes
• palette knife
• old credit card
• sponge mop head
• index cards

Very quickly I printed about 50 monotype landscapes.

It was a great exercise in composition and design.

This one above is created with horizontal brayer marks.

This one is brayer mark mountains and the sky was created with a wide bristle brush.

This one has some light underlying mountain marks. I used an old credit card to create the horizon lines and foreground marks.

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I leave my inks right out on the workspace. The water based speedball block  printing ink can be activated with a little spritz of water and mixing in a little fresh ink.

I gave myself a 10 minute challenge. I tried to pull ten little prints in 10 minutes. Well I only got 3, but I was motivated to pull the other seven.

Often my last prints of the day are the ones that I like the best. Does that happen for you?

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hand printed cards online workshop with Linda Germain from Linda Germain on Vimeo.

Yesterday I joined several other members of the Haverhill Art Association at Nunan’s Florist and greenhouse for a botanical inspired day of printing.

Each Sunday in January the artists gather in the greenhouse and paint, draw, print and make clay work. The series culminates with a final exhibit and opening to the public on Sunday, January 28th from 12 to 3.

I started by walking around looking for shapes and textures. Then I took some photos.

I decided to hunt for a few leaves or ferns on the floor and to make some single color cards.

I had a wonderful, warm, winter afternoon in the greenhouse pulling gelatin prints.

I was lucky to find a few fairly flat ferns and leaves and produce some lovely detailed impression with the gelatin plate.

Towards the end of the day I cut a tavel stencil based on a sketch that I did of some leaves and pulled a couple of two color prints on old book pages.

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When I started exploring gelatin printmaking, I just played with the process and found methods by trial and error.

Making prints with the gel plate is so fast that learning can happen very quickly.

These 2 gelatin plate prints are what I call the detailed impression. It is the print that is made by the ink that is left under your stencils. Generally this print shows the details and texture of the stencil.

For example if you were to zoom in on the thread you would see the tiny fibers.

I think that the yellow and blue print is stronger and more interesting. They are both very similar to make but I made a few small changes to create the yellow and blue print.

These are the types of techniques that we will learn to master in the next session of Make Monotypes.

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