I can't believe that it is 6 months since I last posted on this site. It hasn't been that I haven't continued to make gelatin prints, just that I have been too busy printing to take time out from printing to post pictures. So here are some of the prints with circular inserts of other prints to all form pages in a new book called 'The Circle of Life' 

                                         These 3 below have yet to have the life forms added.

More Botanicals.

With Melbourne being in the grip of a heat wave, the time normally spent working in the vegetable garden, has been spent playing with printing plants (botanicals) on my Gelatine plate. Here are a few more new images.

It's always tricky to decide when enough is enough! Too many layers and the print is a muddy mess, and too few layers and the print can appear too simple. Although there are three layers in the print above, I feel that there are too many open spaces. However, with the addition of a stamp or two that may not be the case.

                  This I feel is not successful! The grasses are too pale against the background.

While this print is fairly simple, I really like the colour and texture on some of the leaves. The blue on the leaves is left from a previous print and the paint was still wet.

Although fairly cluttered, I quite like this one, with some leaves appearing quite distinct and some appearing more complex.

Time for Printing Again.

 It seems a very long time since I posted anything here......in fact is IS a long time! Here we are in mid January 2025 and this is my first post for the year. I haven't been idle however, just snowed under with domesticity and a partner's ill health. It was lovely to get back to printing on a gelatine plate, inspired by  an online course that I enrolled in presented by Kim Herringe, a wonderful teacher and artist from Queensland. Her lessons are extremely well organised, very well delivered and very inspirational. Below are a few prints that I made last week following her lessons.

                                                 It was a good start to an other artistic year.