Category: Monoprinting
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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…
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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…
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Word of the Year
I can’t remember if I wrote about it here, or not, but I had been pondering my 2025 Word of the Year, and I came up with the phrase Take Up Space. I let that compost for a while to see if something else came up, or a different way of framing it arrived, but…
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Daisy Pulls
It is a windy day today, and after walking a few miles in the wind, I was not enthralled with being in my studio room listening to the wind, which seems to be very loud in that room, and painting. I did spend some time in there, tho, doing a quick gel printing session. I…
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Art Exhibition and Collage Fodder
I have had a great day today. I decided to use up the paint in the stay-wet palette leftover from my recent mixing exercise to make collage fodder. I pulled out a couple of small gel plates and got stuck in. I have to say it was the most fun because I finally have enough…
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Mini Monoprints
I’m using a little 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbook with my 2×3″ gel plate. (yes, I’m bilingual as far as measurements go, never going to change). It started out as a project in the Things To Do When Creativity Seems Blocked – one of several tricks that I try to remember as good ways to get…
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Today I watched a video showing the exploded remains of a journalist gathered into a shoebox, topped off with a piece of his scalp, and placed in a carrier bag. None of the people who could stop this want to stop it. 232/300
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New Sketchbook Project
I didn’t have much time today as we went for a seven mile walk, which was beautiful and autumnal. I got another of the wee 9x14cm Art Creation sketchbooks specifically to use with my 3×5″ gel plate. Yes, one of those measurements is imperial and one is decimal and that’s how I roll. I used…
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Monotype Printing
I am never short of ideas, and that’s what’s so funny/frustrating about a lot of days when I go to the studio, and then stand there wondering “what am I going to paint???” Today I didn’t have that feeling, although I did a whole bunch of procrastinating before I went to the studio, so it…
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Pulling
Today I got a wee parcel with two gel plates from a brand I haven’t tried before, so that was a nice way to get back into the studio and mess about with paints. I’ll have to give them a few sessions before I can decide whether they are like for like, or an improvement,…
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New Art Materials and Hares
Late last night I had an idea which I immediately acted upon. I used my phone to resize one of my large hare wips and printed it, then using charcoal I made a transfer for my gel plate. I transferred it onto a small card, and I will see where it goes from there. It’s…
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Six In One
Yesterday I used a background that had been done quite a while back as the substrate from my painting. Late in the evening I pulled a few more bits and pieces from my rack of part-done work to see if anything else called to me to be finished. One of things I pulled out was…
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