Instructions for our collaborative collograph day, from Andrea:
1. Tear a 22 x 20 sheet of print paper the weight of BFK into 4 pieces = 11 x 15 (I have it in my office for $2.10 a sheet).
I also have the paper for printing.
2. Coat both sides with gesso or acrylic paint (house paint will work) and add textures no higher than 1/8. " Use Cut paper, textured paper, drawing with glue or acrylic medium etc.) Do control your urge to put thick objects on the plate because they cause miserable printing problems.
3. After you put your textures on, coat the plate with white acrylic paint, gesso or a combination of the two so that the plate is completely white.
4. Coat all surfaces back and front and sides with gloss acrylic medium, or spray the plate with spray shellac or white spray paint. (The plate needs to coated to withstand a lot of rubbings with ink and also be impervious to cleaning with mineral spirits.)
The plate need to be white so you can see the color ink on it and know how to wipe it. The most successful plates are very flat with no high edges to catch ink that will blob out under the weight of the press.
5. You can also score the plate with an X-acto knife for lines.
6. After we are finished, you can take home the pieces and finish them with collage, drawing, sewing...... whatever it takes.
We should start at 9:00 am and go to whenever you have had enough. Just as long as you don't leave me with a mess!
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Hi this is great stuff!
I am an art teacher who does not have a lot of print making exp. I want to do collographs with my grade 11 students and follow your procedure for making the plate - thank you!
What would you do next, we have ink and rollers and a press (roller) can you give me some pointers on actually making the print.
Much appreciated, Lisa
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