On Friday I had a visit by Distance Education children and their mothers. They had some fun printing onto tags, book pages and envelopes using gelatine plates that I had made. An hour of chaos but they all seemed pleased with their results. And I'm sure the Mums were glad to find another inexpensive school holiday activity!
For the past 2 days, I've been running a monoprinting and concertina book workshop for 12 lovely ladies. I had made a lot of gelatine plates in the past week - the cool room in the kitchen was full of them!
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| Gelatine plates in the cool room. Cool rooms are common out here, I would have had trouble fitting them all into the fridge. |
But even the permanent plates suffered a little dryness as well, the gelatine overall performed better in the dry air as they held plenty of moisture. It was interesting to find some preferred the permanent plates, others liked the gelatine.
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| Busy printing |
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| Sally and I reviewed her monoprints, easier to see all laid out together. We were planning which ones to include in her concertina book |
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| Working hard and making lots of mess, lucky the space was big enough! |
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| Ros working on her book using her lovely prints |
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| A selection of completed books, filled with dozens of colourful prints |
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