I had to make a difficult decision yesterday. I had to buy gelatin if I wanted to explore a new printing technique and as a vegetarian this didn't sit well with my ethics and VegeGel just wouldn't do. However, my plan is to experiment with the gelatin plate and if I think I will be using it a lot, then I will invest in a Gelli Plate, a synthetic reusable version.
So to the horror of my children, yesterday saw me heating gelatin to make a printing plate, which this morning, I retrieved from the back of the fridge and had a play with with a roller and some acrylic paints. I'm really happy with the results and feel that I now have a stock of printed cards to work into, over print and experiment with to make them really stand out.
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| Gelatin Plate. |
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| Leaf prints from this mornings experiments. |
I've really enjoyed making these this morning, a creative couple of hours with some interesting results, its the type I enjoy. I used to really enjoy making collographs when I was at art college so this type of monoprinting is a return to a way of working that used to free my imagination.
I'm now planning how I can make these more individual, with designs from my own imagination.
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