Collograph printmaking ideas

Posts about Part 4 Introducing collatype printing written by Pam Wright

This sampler was focusing on different types of string, fabric, card and hard and soft substances. All the sticking and sealing was done with pva, which wasn’t quite up to the job, and the ba…

Making a few test prints on the plate-made-from-sensible-materials was quite successful, in that it turned out pretty much as I’d expected it to. The branches coming out of the top of the wal…

Collagraph Printing and How to use it in the classroom: The Collagraph Lesson will integrate science with art, focusing on how animals and insects use camouflage (the Collagraph print) to survive in their environment. Students will create a texture or pattern of an imaginary animal or insect skin using the Collagraph print.

Today I am doing a bit of prep for a workshop I’ll be teaching next week. I wanted to do some kind of printing project and have settles on collagraph prints. A collagraph is a printing plate …

Tetrapak Collagraphs are an innovative type of intaglio printmaking technique. This technique involves the use of recycled materials, such as orange, milk ,soy cartons. You can use it as a rectangu…

How to make a basic collagraph plate from materials you may have at home. You will need a piece of mount board or grey board (the back of an old sketch book) or 2 pieces of cereal box card stuck together, just to make it thicker if you haven't got any of the other card. PLEASE DO NOT USE FOAM BOARD: this is board with thin white paper sandwiching a layer of polystyrene. Start with a 10 x 10cm square. A selection of textured wall papers (samples can be gleaned from you local DIY store) PVA…