Specialist Skills: Collagraph

Collagraph is another printmaking technique and one that ive tried before one time. This technique involves creating a textured collage which is varnished and inked to be printed. This collage plate cant be too textured because you wont see all the detail and it can break through the paper.

To print the collagraph you need to use a registration board, this is a numbered board you place the inked plate in and then the paper on top, the edge on the bottom left keeps your paper straight and always in line with the plate if you want to layer your prints. The registration board is placed between two wooden boards with padding and put into the book press to transfer, i used newsprint and sugar paper for these prints.

This collagraph was created with tissue paper, i printed it in black ink, white ink on black sugar paper and a red and green gradient which was quite difficult as i had to mix my own green.