More Prints from the Gelatin Plate

These are some more of the prints that I made.  The plate is about 7 inches by 7 inches, I made the plate in a brownie pan.  Now I know that people go all spare about the idea of art stuff in food utensils, but after all, this is just Knox blox carried to an extreme, and no paint touched the pan.  If I ever make brownies again I am using this pan. 

I had read that the homemade Gelatin plate would last 2 to 3 days.... well, this one lasted 5 and it might have been good for a while yet except it was beginning to smell funny. Not awful, just funny, and I thought it was time for it to go.  I had taken it out of the pan and put it on a sheet of plexi, so it was not refrigerated or preserved.  I just covered it with an upside down box and left it sitting on the table.  The cats left it alone.



The red piece is a linoleum block that I cut ages ago trying to see what I could do there.  I never loved it, but it does look like some sort of cryptic symbol. I did a lot of stenciling from photos that I cut out, they don't last long, so that is good, once they're over they're over and for me that is important.  There are some photos I have been using for 30 or more years.  Having the stencils disintegrate means that I have to move on, or use what I have...

 I am going to play with working back into it with something like neocolor crayons or something.  I want to make another plate the same size, but I need more gelatin and so I may just play with what I have this weekend...

Well, we had snow... a LOT of snow

And Blogless Nicki came up here to the northern reaches of Manhattan so we could have an artsy craftsy weekend.  What we decided to do was to make a gelatin plate......
 

We really made it from gelatin and water, inside a square baking tin, which we managed to get it to come out of the next day.  It took a little persuasion, but actually it came out really well.  We had some of the purchased Gelliplates, but we decided to make our own while we figured out how to use them lest we damage the much more expensive purchased ones...


We had the usual excellent supervision.  and we just played for the afternoon.  The plate held up beautifully and we made about 11 prints.  Then we took a break, made pasta and cookies and broke out the wine.  Or maybe the pasta was Friday after we made the plate... (it has to sit overnight to gell up) and on Saturday we had Chinese food.  In anycase we had cookies both nights and wine.  The important elements were the same.  It snowed 11 inches or more up here and the wind was really blasting...

Today, Nicki went home.  The snow is cleared off the sidewalks really well up here so she went off to watch dancing and eat more Chinese food and I went back into the studio with the supervisor and nade some more prints. The plate held up perfectly overnight and  I am sure this is not their final state, but here are some of them.  This is really fun!!