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Here I am at the end of the day and my gelatin print on an index card is not done yet.

Oh dear……….

What does that say about my priorities?  What does that mean – if anything?  Hmmm.  Now I am not passing judgement.  I am just bringing some awareness to the situation.  This is what i am sensing-

• work on the farm is taking up time and energy
• I meet my work commitments on the farm
• I don’t have art supplies to gelatin print at home
• It would be easy to print if a brought a few supplies home
• This 61 day commitment to ICAD is important to me
• I have not made it easy for me to do a gelatin print a day

What will I gelatin print today!?

I will have to go to the studio and see what jumps out at me.

I managed to find this print and collage it on to the index card and collage the dictionary page border.

Yippie another day done.

 I did some gelatin printing in my studio today.  I decided to create a series of prints from the masking stencil that I created from a picture of my brother fishing off the pier in Rye Harbor.

I did a couple of different techniques that helped to produce a strong series of gelatin prints.

• I cut my bristol board to size first while I still had clean hands
• I put a piece of removable tape on the edges of the bristol board so I would have a place to hold the gelatin print with my dirty fingers
• I printed several practice pieces
• I experimented with different mark making tools
• I removed the tape right away so it would not become permanently stuck to the gelatin print.

I made about 16 gelatin prints with the intention of creating 10 finished prints.  That was a new approach for me too – to have a product goal.  I ended up with 9 finished prints – close to goal.

Would you like to come to my studio and make a series of gelatin prints?  If so then, check out the workshop schedule.  Hopefully there will be a date that works for you.

If you are new to gelatin printing watch a few of my videos and check out the flickr page to see what other folks are doing with their gelatin prints.