CollagraphPrinting

I'm an artist that loves collagraph printmaking.

Collagraphy is a really versatile printing process in which a textured plate is inked up and put through a press. Different textures hold varying amounts of ink and print different tones. Anything with a low relief texture can be stuck down and used: wallpaper, leaves, fabrics, tapes and threads etc.

The collagraph plate is then varnished and can be printed intaglio or relief. This is our method of creating and printing collagraph plates intaglio.

Intaglio printing is when the image is pressed into the page, the ink fills up all the grooves in your collagraph plate. You can use quite deep grooves but be careful not to make them too thin or they will break!

Relief printing is where you take your collagraph plate to the press and the ink only fills the positive shapes in your collagraph.

I will cover all this and much more in my adventures in collagraphy.

CollagraphPrinting

Do you mount your own prints? I do!! It’s taken a while but I can whip them out in no time 😎

Rise your hand if you would like me to make a video about it… 🤗

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So delighted to have all my 3 prints selected and exhibiting 2nd year with Southbank Printmakers in this awesome mini print exhibition running from 30th of September until 30th of November.

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Thrilled to be participating 2nd successive year in Small But Mighty exhibition in Bankside Gallery, London, with my small but mighty Mokulito print!

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Hello Printmakers! Just intrigued if you do mokulito printing and if you prefer rolling ink onto the plate with a traditional ink roller or a sponge roller? I can't decide which method I prefer....

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Used a ghost lithograph print as a basis for playing around with some ideas, by painting over with acrylic inks. I love the 3D feeling that ghosts print can give you! Still slightly obsessed with vertical lines, circles have crept…

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