Collograph printmaking ideas

Posts about Part 4 Introducing collatype printing written by Pam Wright

raven collograph: plate & print

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…

I just finished making a new Collagraph plate. I really liked the way it looks now with the colors, so I thought I better scan it before I dirty it up with ink tonight...

Want to try a printmaking project that is quick and inexpensive? Try these 30-minute collographs, made with recycled materials.

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…

Collagraph, is one of the print media with which I work consistently. You will find the collagraph basics elsewhere but below is collagraphs according to me! All printmakers have our individual approaches to the medium.

In my studio last month I explored printing with some plants from my garden - a perennial silver bush (unable to be identified) and the flower heads from my Italian Parsley. It wasn't a complex printing session, but just a relaxing exploration of a couple of plants I wanted to try before I did some garden trimming. The flower heads were rather thick and juicy, so I first ran one through the press with butchers paper to get rid of some of the excess moisture. I then printed with it - the…

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…

Video tutorial on my youtube channel - link below or search ‘yeatesmakes’ for this and loads more home printmaking tutorials

Carol Morrison is a lifelong artist who found her métier in monoprinting and works on paper 20 years ago.

A collograph is a simple printmaking process that is fun to use with children and is an easy way to make sheets of wrapping paper, cards or a piece of art to hang on the wall. You start by cutting out shapes from different materials. I used a sheet of craft foam, a paper that has the texture of corrugated cardboard and a leftover roll of the material that is used to line drawers in your bathroom. All of the materials should be about the same thickness. After cutting out a variety of shapes I…

Judy Wise: Collographs with Akua Inks

The process of making carbon monoprint layer by layer. (Still not finished yet) . . #appias_albina_process #art #artwork #artist #process…

Collagraph using corrugated card etc

Here’s a great place to start printmaking with kids. Students create collographs using simple materials and print with tempera paint.