Workshop: The Versatile Gelatin Plate Alden Studio/ Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA 02332
Fri, August 08, 2025
Explore gelatin plate printmaking using mark making, handmade stencils, and collage to create multi-layered prints without a printing press.
A group of ten artists gathered for a two-day workshop to print a variety of papers. Some monotypes were considered finished prints and others were saved as collage materials.
Exercise #1 Asemic writing over text and roll-off papers.
Exercise #2 Printing sheets of paper with texture and masking techniques.
Exercise #3 Layering with stencils and printing on tengucho (thin rice paper).
Exercise #4 Timed collaborative collage.
Exercise #5 Registering Fabriano paper to the left and right side of the gelatin plate to create two related prints—a diptych.
Exercise #6 Finished collage to fit a 12x12 mat.
