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Month: May 2025

  • Making a Transparency Using an Inkjet Print (cont.)

    Making a Transparency Using an Inkjet Print (cont.)

    I was thinking I had probably exhausted the options for this deep-dive, other than honing my skills with the application process, and I was thinking I was satisfied with my discoveries. Then I had an idea. I wasn’t even thinking about art, or this process, or anything at all to do with art, I was…

  • From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer

    From Sketchbook To Gel Print Via Inkjet Printer

    I had a little tidying and organising session today. I gathered together a bunch of things that I had stored in several different places and sorted them into groups of similar things. They are all things I have collected to use on the gel plates, but I never pull them out because they are in…

  • Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    Image Transfer Transparencies Winners and Losers

    I have been testing an inkjet image of this drawing which was printed on copy paper the same day I made prints using all the different papers. The test is simply spraying a small section of the print with water, and seeing what happens. The first test was the day the print was made, and…

  • Happy Accidental Success Day

    Happy Accidental Success Day

    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…

  • Inkjet Image Transfer Concertina

    Inkjet Image Transfer Concertina

    I’m back in the studio today, but yesterday definitely filled the well, and there are lots of ideas, and I’m making notes of them, because I’m incredibly talented at generating ideas and forgetting them within a day. I’m still playing with image transfer ideas and techniques, specifically inkjet print image transfers. The portrait prints I…

  • Drawing A Badger

    Drawing A Badger

    I did not make art in my studio today. The shock. The horror. Instead we went along to Silverburn Park for a drawing class organised for Scottish Badger Week. We got there an hour early so we could find a quiet spot and do some field sketching, which you will probably know I really need…

  • More Gel Plate Inkjet Image Transfers

    More Gel Plate Inkjet Image Transfers

    I carried on with this experiment today, and pulled the inkjet image transfer of my drawing onto some gel prints. I think the process is going to do what I want it to do, but still some testing to do, so these will have to hang to dry for a few days before I can…

  • Inkjet Image Transfers on the Gel Plate SUCCESS

    Inkjet Image Transfers on the Gel Plate SUCCESS

    While I am leaving the inkjet prints on various papers to dry for a few days, I decided to revisit another experiment I first wanted to try a few years ago. I can tell you it was a few years ago because I looked up the date I bought the freezer paper on the big…

  • Hung Out To Dry

    Hung Out To Dry

    I pulled out every transparent, or potentially transparent, paper I could think of, and put them through the printer. They are all quite thin, so needed to be attached to a carrier paper, so there was some fiddling, and trimming going on. I’ve printed the same image with the same printer settings on all eight…

  • Yummy Texture

    Yummy Texture

    Today I had a lot of fun making mixed media collage fodder using my gel plates. There’s lots of texture and I upcycled a bunch of used teabags I had been saving, and I’m really happy with the way most of it turned out. I got a nice surprise as the special paper I ordered…

  • Collage Fodder and a Tap

    Collage Fodder and a Tap

    Today was a disrupted day because we had a plumber coming to fit and outside tap. I am chuffed to bits that we now have an outside tap, especially given the forecast is for a long, dry summer. I am not chuffed about the climate change part of that, but the easier job of watering…

  • Ongoing Experiment

    Ongoing Experiment

    I thought I had solved the bleeding ink conundrum, but it was not the ink setting on the printer that caused the bleed. I had fun doing this, even though it’s technically a failure. It’s not a failure, I don’t look at art experiments that way. I have two theories. The first is that maybe…