We’ve been working away this last while on many, many gel transfer prints of images we shot in the York Hotel before it was demolished.

As Marian and I were working at Boyle Street Plaza this past Monday, she decided to post a few pictures of our work … who knew that #sore fingers was a real hashtag!?!?

I thought it was hilarious – although in our case, very true.

Gel transfer printing is a great way to make work – it’s (relative to other printmaking processes) simple & fast, and I personally love the immediacy of working so directly with the image. Even though it all begins with a photo, printed on a laser printer, the process itself is completely hands-on, low tech.

And that’s where the sore fingers come in … all those bits of paper pulp to be removes to reveal the print beneath!

Here’s some “action…