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Gelatin printing for people who 1) have no idea what it is, 2) need to relax about making mistakes, and 3) don’t want to spend a bunch of money.
PART ONE: HOW TO MAKE AND BUY THE STUFF YOU NEED The first thing to do if you want to explore a new medium, is go to a big box craft store and spend a hundred bucks on supplies. Then sign up for a class at the store, in which they will sell you more…
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Simple slab cup project: a powerpoint
I make these for my Ceramics 1 class and might as well share them! Click the button at the top that says “present”. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N8Brn0MwQqcq3T2_f69uAu1I34NYC_7DoA6ixxpZCQM/edit#slide=id.p1
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Gelli printing when you don’t have supplies. (working subtitle: when you fail to plan, you plan to… improvise.)
Some time in September, (because who needs a calendar anymore?) Jeff lost his job and we fled to the family cottage in Michigan, bringing the cats and some boxes of art supplies. My gelatin printing stuff didn’t make the “essential” list, so when I started making more of my little wooden houses for my jewelry…
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How to Teach Gelatin Printing (Affordably!) to Beginners
I got involved in our library system’s “Maketober” program and have been taking gelatin printing classes on a rolling cart to different libraries all month, teaching up to 12 students per class. I am making barely enough to cover supplies but wanted a chance to offer classes to folks who can’t always afford them. In…
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How I Flunked Bullet Journal School
I have been scribbling my thoughts, notes, lists and poems, appointments and sketches since grade school. Somewhere in an attic is a box of spiral notebooks containing every stupid thing I did in my youth, stories of boys I shouldn’t have dated, experiments in excess, self important embarrassments. My brother and I once had an…
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Kelly Averill Savino 