Having a very good collection of acrylic paint in many colours I have always resisted the urge to buy the 'Open' paint for gelatin plate printing that is always recommended. The 'open' paint stays workable for a lot longer than normal acrylic paint and doesn't dry on the home-made plate I have discovered.
I had such poor results from the new gelatin plate yesterday using the normal paint that I went out early and bought 4 tubes of the Golden Open acrylic paint. What an enormous difference !
There are so many imperfections in the gelatin plate that I will melt it down and re-mould it, but the results are so much better than I've ever been able to achieve before with straight acrylic paint. Watch this space!
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