Tag: Printing
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Tips and ideas for getting started when creating collagraph plates.
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Following on from my previous solar plate prints I decided to create a relief linocut with the aim of masking and selectively inking specific areas…
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Every December our print group cut up either failed or excess prints produced during the year and swap with each other to create small concertina…
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This week I’ve been building resources in my sketchbook. An A5 pencil sketch of TV remote controls sitting on my cutting mat was followed by…
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Even though my Linear Containment book was fully completed and assembled earlier in the year I still have an itch to print the final plate…
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Further to my last post, where I started creating my new collagraph plate (without the large cut away areas), once the Mod Podge solution dried…
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In my last post I talked about the necessity of understanding the type of paper you’re using to print on, depending on the print method. …
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Loving my latest printing project although all is not going to plan. But isn’t that the beauty of printing? The serendipity of result when peeling…
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A couple of years ago, in a Jet James workshop, I made this print plate from 3mm foamex board (anyone following my blog will know…
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Using my original collagraph plate (see previous posts) as a reference I started to plan a larger version with a little more complexity. The sand…
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Continuing to play with the collagraph plate I made in the workshop with Gabriella Hegyes (see initial print left) I’ve been trying to get some…
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Part 3: Collagraphs: The first thing I love about collagraphs is that there is so much you can do to create an image. I’ve done…
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Part 2: Gabriella certainly worked us hard and shared a ton of information and samples with us. Trapping Plant Material: This was interesting. I had…
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Part 1: This two-day workshop in the Blue Mountains was an opportunity for me to print in completely different ways to what I have experienced…
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No-one can produce perfect prints first time so what happens to all those trial pieces? The ones where the colour chosen really wasn’t right or…
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All week I’ve been making chemical water, thickened paste, mixing dye colours and trialling my dye screen-printing. Today I took a time out from that…