Today was a perfect day for making gelatin plate valentines: dreary, drippy, dank, depressing, dark. Two friends came over and we proceeded to take over the kitchen with paper, gelatin plates, inks, and papers. The kitchen lighting brightened our afternoon and the valentine experiments warmed our hearts! My husband is thrilled to have the gelatin out of the refrigerator even though he had to eat lunch in the living room. This print was created by my friend and uses a hand-cut stencil for the heart and is printed in red. She created a positive print overlay using a paper doily and pewter metallic Speedball ink. The metallic inks provide a nice shimmer.
I created two prints using a hand-cut stencil also, but the stencil borders were cut to fit inside of the gelatin plate. The first print was in purple (or red) and the final print overlays were used patterns from paper coffee cup protectors and silver metallic Speedball ink.
This photo says it all. Three hours went by before we knew it and if it was raining outside, we didn't know it.
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