Gelatin Prints

For this project we had to use gelatin and other objects to create four final prints and at least one had to be hand manipulated. Starting with a block of gelatin I used a brayer to roll blue ink on it. Next I placed stencils of the letters "o" and "k" on it so it would leave the letters in blue ink. I used drawing paper folded vertically so it would be a long piece of paper. I just thought the words "ok" would look cool. After manipulating "ok" to be "look" with black construction paper, I decided to create a phrase. While I liked the look of having something abstract I wanted to do something different so I ended up creating "you look at me". I wanted to matte the words vertically because I wanted the eye to travel down rather than up. If I were to do this again I would activate the negative space by adding color or designs.