Chine colle printmaking

UPDATE! April 2023 I have found a new "best glue for chine collee", suggested by a student on a course. This is Tylose Powder. It is an edible glue used in cake decorating, and comes as a fine white powder. You use it just like wallpaper glue, described below but…

Posts about Project 14 Investigating combination printing and incorporating chine colle collages written by Pam Wright

Paper collage made with a printing press and Japanese papers It can be easy to forget to share the behind-the-scenes of what we are working on. These things can give a glimpse into the artistic process and into other ways of working that can be very enlightening and inspiring to others. So, I thou

I was out early on Sunday to head into the National Print Museum in Dublin in order to attend a printmaking workshop given by artist Elaine Leader. I signed up for this workshop because the technique of "Chine collé" was featured and I have been curious about this technique since I became aware of it about 20 years ago (I had never heard of it in printmaking classes I had in art school in Toronto). To start the day we were given some pieces of thin plastic (or thick acetate?) referred to as…

Shannon Melder ~ Clandestine — Linocut with chine colle, Blue/Copper on creme paper

My objective is to blind emboss a pair of my mother’s gloves, combined with chine colle digital images of the packaging and the label. I have found very little information on blind embossing,…

Valerie Syposz on Instagram: "Testing out chine collé with some very reasonably priced gampi I got at the beginning of the month. And, it should be no surprise, but it’s beautiful! Drawing straight from life drawing on foil, printed at home. . #print #printmaking #kitchenlitho #kitchenlithography #handprinted #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #printmaker #chinecollé #リトグラフ"

Irenka Pareto | Have you tried Chine-Collé with relief prints? In my practice, I am constantly exploring and experimenting and Chine-Collé is one of my... | Instagram

To create this monotype artwork, I used a photograph of a dead tree along with tinted Akua release agent and transferred to paper (Arches 88 printing paper) using a printing press. Prior to running the solar plate, I affixed a photograph (that has been printed on thin rice paper) to the blank printing paper. This process of inking over the attached image is called Chine collé (see below). Each piece is a one of kind print thus called a Monotype. Each print is hand signed and numbered 1/1…