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Details, doilies and Do it! – Gelatin Prints

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©linda germain 2012 Gelatin printing with a plastic doily

A couple of years back I took a great class with Cathy McLaurin.  During the class she shared lots of her mark making tools.  I fell in love with an old plastic doily.  So I searched the junk stores for a plastic doily of my own and eventually I gave up looking.  Today I found one.  It is not a fabulous as cathy’s but it does make a wonderful detailed impression on the gelatin plate.

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Simple Mark making tools – Gelatin Prints

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©2012 linda germain gelatin plate monotype tools

I am playing with some old film reels, round things,  tops from shampoo containers and a bit of thin yarn to make marks in the ink on the gelatin plate.
©2012 linda germain – gelatin plate printmaking with my favorite colors
©2012 linda germain – gelatin print  with shampoo covers as stamping tools
©2012 linda germain – just having fun with my new camera – but these are stamps
made on cd case, with double stick carpet tape and caps and round foam bits
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Mark making tools for Gelatin Prints

2010, fabric prints, mark making tools / /
©2012 linda germain – found objects for gelatin printmaking

I can’t resist a visit to EXCL when I am in Lynn.  It is a recycling center for creatives.  I try to limit my self to stuff that I will use.  But how do I know what I am going to use before hand?  So this week I added these film canister things and other round things for making marks in the ink on the gelatin printing plate/pad.  I used the red toy like a cookie  cutter to make a circle of gelatin. See a print here.

©2012 linda germain cut up an old gelatin plate and print some more

So don’t give up on the gelatin plate that is starting to fall apart.  Get out your cookie cutters and press out some shapes.  Ink them up.  Work into the ink and make some impressions. Happy Printing!

How to make a gelatin Plate for printmaking – the video

Quick video on the basics of gelatin printmaking

Gelatin printing artist trading cards – a short video

48 second slideshow of gelatin prints by linda germain and why she loves it.

Or Take the next gelatin printing workshop

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