Collagraph printmaking landscape

One of the great things about doing an art degree is that you get to try out lots of techniques not directly related to your core subject. I have really been enjoying experimenting with collagraph printing. Having worked so much with textiles I have bags full of lovely little scraps of textured fabric and fibres that I simply cannot bear to throw away, and making collagraph plates has been the perfect opportunity to put some of them to good use. My plates are simply a small square of thick…

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A quick video demonstrating techniques and ideas for combining masking tape collagraphs with gel plate printing techniques to produce monoprints. Loads of sc...

Fen is my name in short and folio means "a sheet of any written or printed material".

I have challenged my printmaking groups to combine collagraph prints with gum arabic transfers. They have made a set of small plates, these are 3in x 3in, using tile cement, carborundum and wood glue, then simply intaglio printed using one or two colours, I have also used dress pattern tissue as chine collee. When the prints are dry I have added some gum arabic transfer elements in gold and silver ink. Really sparking off some ideas for me.

How to build a mat board collagraph plate with carborundum - if you ink and wipe your plate intaglio style, this trick will preserve your darks!