In the past month I have been finishing off collagraph
prints ready for my solo exhibition in October.
I started by printing a lot of sheets of paper in 2 colours,
using a “generic” plate with an overall, impasto gel, stipple pattern on it.
Over this background I printed each one of 5 plates, with images of “details in
nature” that I have seen while walking beside the ocean, in 2 more colours.
The image plates were made by gluing cut out paper onto a
square of cardboard and then adding texture that would trap printing ink with a
medium called impasto gel. The impasto gel sets hard and once protected with a
couple of coats of shellac, can be printed many times.
As I was still not entirely happy with the level of
definition in the prints I had produced I then worked on them further using
aquarel pencils. Rather than produce an edition of say 10 identical prints,
which I find really tedious, I have treated each print as a “one off,” using
different colours for both the background and image for all of them.
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