I have made this collagraph print plate using a range of materials such as card, string, book pages, foil, tissue paper and fruit netting. I glued my materials to a thick card base with PVA. I left it for a couple of hours to dry.
This is a great technique; it’s inexpensive and produces a variety of textured prints.
I have used water-based printing inks, but I find children’s cheap ready-mix paint works too.
I printed my colour layer first.
After printing a few prints of pure colour I rubbed black onto my print plate for some darker prints, the black adds contrast to the textured areas.
Top Tip! You can use a variety of paper to print on, newspapers, magazines, old sheet music and book pages. See some examples in my post 'Examples of my collagraph prints from string'.
