you asked for it

I just got back a bunch of slides I had made for my Dye/Paint/Print demo in Houston. Problem is, I can't find my loupe, my little slide viewer thingie is out of batteries, and my slide projector doesn't work. So we'll all be in for a surprise. They look pretty good to my nekkid eye--but we'll see. I sent a bunch of jpgs off to a digital-to-slides place and if they are good, this will be the way to go as far as I am concerned. Where is all of this leading? Some of you asked for a gelatin print tutorial so I figured I'd share with you some of the pictures I made into slides, taken during one of my classes. Nancy Marculewicz' book Monoprinting with a Gelatin Plate is really excellent - although she is a printmaker who works on paper. I've done it on paper,too. But I still love fabric best. Here I am putting a blob or two of paint on the plate, which I will roll out in the next photo. Heh heh - this block has been used for a while, but here it is with a piece from my grandson's card game. I'm going to lay the fabric on top of it and see what happens. This is my favorite part. Surprise!! And in the next picture, another print on the same fabric. And finally, a raft of prints on my design wall: the piece that never got made. I have tons of these and one of these days I'll do something interesting with them. Maybe.