Experimenting...

...to try and get an image from a magazine on to the gel plate and print it...

Not easy.
Watched loads You Tube...

There is a pile of rejects. These are the barely half decent. The dark pics are the magazine pages where you can barely see the original. This is the black ink which took the magazine image from the magazine to the gel plate.

This needs more work. More trying. Better pictures to work from.

I need fashion magazines with fancy photography. I don’t have any and I am not going to buy any to do this. Yet, I need suitable pictures to work from.

Looking through some Cheshire Life which J had kept buying me. But it depends on ink, paper printed on etc. Is the ink fully dry? If not there is a better chance of a transfer.

When I was a child the racing paper was cut into squares and strung up with string by the ‘toilet’. That ink wasn’t dry...

I am looking at some old books in my collection which I don’t mind using for this...the gel printing I mean. National Geographic is supposed to be good for gel print transfer but apparently only before some date in the 1980’s.

Another delve into my Tardis (garage) I think in the morning. I am sure I have the full collected works of John Bunyan...an illustrated one that was printed in the late 1800’s. It’s falling apart and I am dying to get my hands on the very 3D relief end covers to see if that will act as stamps on the gel plate.

Actually, I am sure I have more old books that have covers in a relief pattern...

I have just remembered, I am sure I have some old black and white film books, or something.

I’ll take the gel plate in the garage and try it dry against the pictures/illustrations and if it leaves even a remotely feint image, then there is a chance it will when I put black acrylic on the gel plate to do the transfer of the image...

Thank you for all the comments and love yesterday for my Blip Birthday! You are so kind. I am grateful to have met you all.

Take care x