Create Unique Prints with this Easy Technique

re: Create Unique Prints with this Easy Technique

mtnjohn — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:51:09 GMT

After viewing both the series 100 DVD of QATV and Rayna Gillman's DVD related to gelatin monoprinting I have made prints several different times. I have as yet to get anything near what I expected. My first prints just look like blobs while the second (ghost) prints are almost nothing. I am using Jacquard fabric paints (from the exciter pack). I know the issue is "operator error"; but, I fail to see where I am missing the point. Any suggestions?

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sarinar2010@hotmail.com — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:17:01 GMT

love this, love this, love this

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sanchris — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:48:22 GMT

My mom and I used to do the same thing for Camp Fire Girl Projects. We used a hectograph pencil in red or blue. It was lots of fun.

re: Create Unique Prints with this Easy Technique

JaneH@39 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:37:09 GMT

This method of transfering designs is very much like what teachers did in the old days before Xerox and waaaayyyy before computers. My mother filled a little metal pan (8 1/2" by11") with a special thick gelatin. After the gelatin set, she placed a master sheet of paper on top of the gel. The master was a drawing for coloring or test for her class printed in an indelible ink that was absorbed into the gel. Then she made copies by placing sheets of paper on the gel until the ink wouldn't copy anymore. When she finished her copying, she had to wash the gel with a wet cloth so she could use it again and again for other copying.

re: Create Unique Prints with this Easy Technique

cazms5 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:00:53 GMT

How fun...I want to work where you work!