Linocuts and Collographs.

I love printmaking. The end.

Not really, but I do absolutely love it and the special textures you can only achieve with printmaking. Over the past few weeks we have experimented with linoleum cuts and collographs. Collographs are so easily done with just simple cardboard and scrap mat board. 

My students cut scrap mat board to create their words & designs and glued them to cardboard. Words and letters had to be glued in reverse in order for the print to come out correct.

Once the design is cut and glued, students then had to gesso the plates in order for it to retain it's shape and not absorb too much when inked and printed.

Once the gesso dried, students used brayers to roll out ink onto the plate for printing.

I also had students glue tissue paper on random parts of the paper to printed on for a pop of color which made for an even more impressive design.

The left is a print from the plate on the right. The print has pink, yellow and orange tissue paper with the printed image on top with black printing ink. The "plate" on the right has already been gessoed and inked. Collograph plates can be printed over and over which makes for a lot of opportunities to experiment.