Experimental Collagraph Printmaking - (Part 1)
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- In this video I would like to show you how you can really push the boundaries of your materials to create super innovative plates using burnt plastic, pastes and acrylic mediums
2:41 Introduction
4:30 Melting plastics
6:55 Attaching melted plastic to the plate
11:17 Light moulding paste
12:36 Micacious Iron Oxide
14:51 Making collages
16:27 Creating stenciled shapes using heavy body matt medium
19:40 Creating shapes using foil tape
21:51 Fun with collage paper
26:35 Crackle paste, heavy body medium and tile adhesive fun
28:37 Inking Up
Materials:
Black Intaglio Ink by Akua amzn.to/49KQS9w
DIY Tile Adhesive amzn.to/3Us1gys
Light moulding paste by Golden amzn.to/3UsbajE
Mark making tools amzn.to/3JvmOnr
Craft glitter amzn.to/49Mba2d
Marker pad amzn.to/3xG3C3F
Enviromount board handprinted.co...
White golden heavy body paint amzn.to/4d9tBAQ
Stencils amzn.to/4a50TP3
Scrap plastic
Masking tape
Scrap collage tissue
Gloss Medium amzn.to/49Xb5ZS
Crackle paste by Decoart shop.decoart.c... (Hobbycraft in UK)
Extra Heavy body matt medium amzn.to/3UtrG2L
Aluminium tape amzn.to/3WcO69U
Scalpel amzn.to/3QdVxts
Dry point tool amzn.to/4b5FCFM
Micacious Iron Oxide amzn.to/4b9CCb9
Painting brush
Pallet knife
Tissue Paper
Paper: 300 gsm smooth watercolour paper amzn.to/4b6X5xB
Old toothbrush
Scrim handprinted.co...
Baby wipes
Newsprint Paper amzn.to/3W9W3N4
Old newspaper for wiping etc
Polymetaal Press HS-35 Tabletop Etching Press handprinted.co...
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Beautiful work, and inspiring indeed..!.. Thank you for sharing your experimentation...
You are welcome 🤗
Sally Hirst is wonderful. Your work is beautiful.
Thank you 🙏
I only just discovered your channel and I am so inspired! I love my Gelli plates but I have always been intrigued by print making and I find collagraph printmaking fascinating. It’s such a creative process and your print is just fantastic!💕🇨🇦
Thank you Cindy, welcome to my channel! 🤗 My next video combines gelli and collagraph printing, I think this could be fun for you 🙌
Just starting in all this , my imagination is humming now! Thank you for sharing
Fantastic, so glad to hear this! 🙌
really lovely prints, off to print room to have a play, usually just do lino cut. many thanks
Thank you and have fun 🤩
Great piece! I am very excited to try the techniques you demonstrate in the video.
Thank you and enjoy 😊
Merci. Très beau travail!
Merci 🙏
Beautiful work!
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for sharing your playful work, had so much fun watching this.
So happy to hear that, thank you 🙏
Just wow!
🙏🤗
This is a fascinating introduction for me to this printmaking technique. Thanks!
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed it 🤗
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed it 🤗
Wonderful ideas -- I'm eager to try!
Thank you 🙏 and yes you must! 🤟
Oh oh the melted plastic!!! Been planning to try this. Always enjoying your creativity.
Thank you Aino 🤗. Once you start you will never throw any rubbish away in case you could melt it into something interesting. 😄
@@CollagraphPrinting that is true. If my husband knew all the trash I save in my studio corner.... 😬😬🤭🤭🤭
@@AinoShperber 😂
😅🤣😂🤣😅
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So creative! Love it ❤
Thank you 🙏 and thank you for watching 🤗
As always very inspiring
Thank you Ulrike 🙏
Fabulous🎉
Trying to get back into printing making again. What press are you using and paper and size. I am so out of touch. Soend 25 year raising kids and i want to het my groove back.i love your work..i have very limted space..thank you so much..keep creating g amazing work
Yes! More space!
I know how you feel, I am just emerging from motherhood myself and only had more time to myself recently. I use Polymetaal Press HS-35 Tabletop Etching Press which does take a bit of space but Akua makes a really good to press alternative that you could easily stash away: www.amazon.co.uk/Akua-20-Inch-Pin-Press/dp/B00DRE967Y
I printed for a while from a very limited space before I got my studio and it’s possible but you do need to be a bit more tidy and organised. Hope you manage to find some time to get back into it, the joy you will get will be hugely rewarding 🤗
Brilliant!! Thanks a lot!
Thank you and you are welcome 🤗
So interesting. 😊
Thank you 🙏
Really impressive work
Thank you 😊
Fantastic! That was great fun although I didn’t completely understand why you used oxides and different acrylic media to influence the print. Assuming it is to absorb ink differently. I will explore further. Right now I don’t have an etching press but will be trying some of these technique for my gelliplate and other mark making. Perhaps an etching press is in my future.
Hi Donna, yes the different pastes and gels are used to achieve different tones and textures. You can actually use collagraph plates with gelliplate too, worth experimenting!
Beautiful
Thank you 🙏
I enjoyed these two on experimental collagraphy. Thanks for sharing. I saw a fast speed process on Instagram you did and I was intrigued. Do you plan to put it on CZcams? Thanks, Kathy
Yes, the full version is available on CZcams as part 1 and part 2 experimental collagraph. Thank you for watching 🤗
Wow Seeing this print again - its so lovely !! Have you had a go at inking a la poupee with metallic and eg 2 other colours ....!!
Thank you Aine, I did use metallic ink with other brands but not Akua, yet, I must try it out
This was very informative thanks. How long will your plate last? Asking as I did not see you use your Shellac and wondered why. Also wondered if you initially wanted the melted plastic to retain all the shapes you had when you used your iron? I love how experimental you approached this piece. Very brave. Exciting result to watch.
Thank you Carole, the plate won’t last as long without varnish, but I’m really into editioning and I like the detail you get without the varnish. When melting plastic, soon as you melt it onto the plate it will loose some of the textures but at the same time gain some too, very exciting as results are always slightly unpredictable!
Thank you for all your tips. I also have some problems to understand the oxide paint that you used, was one black and the white that you used on the silver tree what paint was. Thanks again
Thank you and you are welcome 🤗 The paint is by Golden and it called micaceous iron oxide
Great video and I shall follow Where did you by White golden heavy body paint and that sheets of shapes..
Stencil
THANK YOU SO MUCH. Tim
Hi Tim, thank you for watching 🤗
I bought the golden paint online and stencil on Amazon. They have loads of different ones. Depends on where you are in the world I buy my paints on Jackson’s Art or other online art stores
Thank you for your reply.
And the heads up yes I know Jackson's
I have been printmaking for a number of years but you are teaching an old dog some very very new and exciting trips! Thank you so much I look forward to enjoying the rest of these programs and carving out time on my calendar to do so. So expect more comments and praise. Seriously though you are a channel that is making a real contribution to print making
@@TimBaynesart thank you so much, your kind words are really appreciated
Thank you for sharing so much of your process. Question: do you seal the plate with gloss medium, and if so, do you apply it over the micaceous iron oxide as well?
Good question! In this case I haven’t sealed the plate, as I don’t really do editioning. But if you want to preserve the surface I would use shellac even on top of the rough surface
Amazing beautiful work! The inspiration prints you used, how did you print those? they look like watercolor?
Thank you so much! They are just little acrylic abstract painting using paints and acrylic media.
This is entirely new to me and it looks very interesting. Is the print you keep referring back to something you did in the past and are trying to re- create?
Thank you for watching and I am really glad you enjoyed the video 🤗
I loved watching the process of creating an abstract collagraph plate. You seem to know an endless amount of different techniques and things to try. I definitely felt inspired. Unfortunately I couldn't quite understand what the Golden paint was. Some kind of oxide?
Thank you for you kind comments. It is me micaceous iron oxide paint by Golden:
Pro-Art Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint 1 oz-Iridescent Micaceous Iron amzn.eu/d/gVCDRBA
Really glad you are feeling inspired 🙌
@@CollagraphPrinting thank you for the quick reply! I have not heard of that paint before, but I'm looking forward to trying it.
You're work has really inspired me to up my game in collagraphy printing! You've given me many new ideas and techniques to try, including switching to the Akua inks. Unfortunately my first order of 8 inks arrived with half of them extremely thick and stiff, nowhere near the thick creamy concistency I was expecting. I've read that cold weather can cause this. Do you have any suggestions about how to remedy this? I have some Akua Blending Medium coming, but these are so thick I fear I'd have to use a LOT of it. Other methods? Would gently warming the inks help? So eager to dive in so hoping you can help! Thanks for all your work on CZcams!!
Oh my gosh I am a huuuuge fan of your prints I follow you on instagram! It’s a huge honour to hear you are inspired by my videos thank you so much!
So, about akua ink, the ink consistency varies depending upon the pigment and temperature conditions. Ink will be stiffer when cold and looser when warm.To loosen and thin the ink, mix in a few drops of Blending Medium with a knife. To loosen unmodified ink, work it with an ink knife under a warm lamp, hair dryer, or place the jar on a hot plate set a very low temperature. I actually got this instructions from mccains website as they describe it really well. I really hope it helps 🤗
@@CollagraphPrinting Thanks for the response and info Marta! I'm so happy you enjoy my work, I guess we share some common aesthetics as I think your work is really great as well. I'm going to try some of the suggestions you sent about the ink, fingers crossed
@@bobcornelis5514 interestingly I opened a new large tub of black akua and it was really stiff, just like you mentioned! When I mixed it with blending medium it was a little bit lumpy but printed ok. I guess you will get more out of the jar with the stiffer ink, it will last longer 😊
Beautiful! Are you using water-based or oi-based printing ink? Which make?
Thank you. I am using akua inks which are soya based but can be washed with soapy water, which is really handy.
absolutely brilliant! I loved this exercise! can you please give me the name of the person who you said gives a collagraph course? and as I am a little hard of hearing is it [possible to show us the name of the products you use?
Hi Colleen, thank you 🙏 All materials and tools are listed under my video description and it’s Sally Hirst who does the course.
Be careful with off gasing of plastic when heated. Be sure of plenty of ventilation.
Yes ventilation is key 🙌
Loving your work. What is the substrate of your plate?
Thank you 🤗. The plate can be made of any cardboard, best is mounting board. There are different types of mounting board and the surface depending on if you want to start with dark or light tones. If you start with dark, then rough surface mounting board will be ok. If you want to start with light, then enviromount board is best. Hope this helps
I’m curious what the acrylic behind the heated plastic does? Adhesive heated? And confused about mercacious iron oxide’s I quality?
Hi Kat, the dried acrylic medium gets activated by the heat and adheres the plastic to the plate. Micasious iron oxide is a paint by golden with rough surface which, similarly to carborundum adds dark tones to your prints
What is the difference between Collagraph Print And Mono prints
Hi there! Collagraph uses a plate that you carve into and stick things on and can use it to print intaglio or relief. It will show all the marks of contours. Monoprint is essentially painting or rolling ink on eg plastic sheet and printing that on paper. You can mix both techniques in one print
Did you shellac it before printing?
Good question! Actually I didn’t. It will mean your plate is more vulnerable but if you are not into editioning then it won’t matter. I like to keep all my details exactly how I made them and shellacking will always create another layer and will affect the tone.
@@CollagraphPrinting good point. I always feel lazy when I don't shellac my plates.. But I certainly don't edition anything as it's all for my own pleasure and experimentation.
How did the plastic stick to the plate?
If you paint acrylic media on one side of the plastic, wait for it to dry, and iron it on to the plate (with baking sheet in between), it sticks on really well!
@@CollagraphPrinting Thank you😊
NICE 👍
I just love this print. Which crackle paste did you use?
Thank you 🙏 I used crackle paint by Decoart
Thank you:)
Esto es lo que se llama enfurruñarse y jugar entre las personas retrasadas debido a las enfermedades psicológicas que padecen y aumenta la incidencia de suicidio.
Accidental marks accidental results. It may satisfy the amateur but here no skill to any degree nor self challenge are attempted . Simple drypoint with drawing far surpasses these chance decorative effects.
I love being an amateur, I don’t feel in anyway there’s anything bad about that, as long as you love what you do. In fact I feel I will always be one, as art is a journey of discovery and the joy in it, is that you could never reach perfection
@@CollagraphPrinting Art is a spiritual journey . The journey of discovery and the path of the artist requires huge amounts of effort , will , love of the craft and passion. The amateur forgoes this for easy decorative returns. An artist never sets perfection as a goal, it has no meaning, reaching for perfection ? and it's never discussed among artists. Having painted and printmaking now for some 58 years it gets no easier as a committed artist to achieve good or even great things. Melting plastic and inflating it as a "process' may sidetrack a new audience from the multiple traditional possibilities in print processes and why learning a technique and the mastering of media medium and tools reward the artist.
@@jezzab5621dude. Chill.
Très heureux de vous suivre beaucoup de sentiments par rapport à la technique et aussi surtout plein de choix dans la tête de l'artiste .Very happy to follow you a lot of feelings about the technique and also especially full of choices in the head of the artist.also can you activate video under title!🗯💭👍
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the video. Part 2 video will hopefully come out next week 🤗