collograph print day - july

some of the print club members gathered for a Saturday printing session, each bringing a plate or three. below are some images of the printing, prints, and plates done during the hours we were there.

recap, workshop in 2003

here you can see some of the various images taken during the collograph workshop in 2003, along with several of the finished prints. this should help you get excited about working on your plates before we all meet up to mix up some ink!

Collaborative Collographs (a note from Andrea)

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!