Hi these are some quick test transfers (so please don’t judge the quality of the art also I don’t have much experience with gel prints so my pulls aren’t so great) on a homemade gel plate. With these I was trying to sort of duplicate the tusche wash/reticulation you get in lithography. So these are toner washes (look up Nick Semenoff for more information) I did on the NON printing side of grafix Inkjet transparency for some reason the watery washes don’t bead up. Wait for it to dry… at this point it is very powdery like charcoal then I laid it on the gel plate just like a charcoal transfer. I found that if I pulled with a color/white it didn’t work as well as when I rolled GAC100 (which is the only clear acrylic I have on hand) on waited for that to dry then rolled plate with white then pulled the print. For those of you who don’t want to mess around with toner powder (which is pretty bad for you if you inhale the powder so precautions are needed!) I have had some promising results with charcoal powder mixed with a little jet wash or dawn dish soap then mixed with water to get washes they just don’t reticulate as much. The last image I painted my toner wash onto some epson presentation paper and transferred same as above it didn’t reticulate as much but I might have lost some detail because I pulled with white paint and didn’t isolate with GAC100 first.
