I was trying out a different way of getting an inkjet print onto a gel plate, and I am still testing the best way to achieve this, although I think I’ve narrowed things down to a successful process, but I need to test it out a few times.
That said, I successfully transferred an inkjet print of my sketch onto tissue paper via the gel plate, and I successfully collaged that into one of my sketchbooks onto and acrylic paint background, and it is pretty much a transparency.
I am very chuffed.
My row of different papers that I directly printed this image onto ae still hanging on their hooks, so I still have to test them to see how they work out, but I think I have already nailed my process, in a way that means I don’t need to leave prints hanging around to dry out.
I had other plans for today, and then I remembered this little technique that I was thinking might work for something else, but it seems to work for transparencies, so it was kind of an accidental discovery, and those are my favourite kind.
I made another concertina sketchbook from a sheet of the Snowdon paper and covered one side of it in bright and messy backgrounds. I pushed them back a bit with a buff titanium veil, and I’ll be using this concertina sketchbook to test out all my transparency experiments, and put the notes on the back.
I’m in a season of experimenting and note-taking and I am not procrastinating at all, so I’m revelling in that.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
454/500
Thrummie Bizzum 
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