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AN INTRODUCTION INTO PRINTMAKING School and Community Workshops Encouraging Art for Everyone Ages 5 + FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO BOOK call: Nicki on 07944 028880 or 01332 590163 or email: nicola.dennett@btinternet.com COLLAGRAPH PRINTS A versatile technique which can be adapted for any age or ability. The basic methods include cutting, tearing and gluing to create a rich variation of tones and colour. For those who learn quickly textures and collage techniques can also be experimented with.
A Bit of Collagraph History The word ‘collagraph’ is derived, arguably, from either the Greek term ‘colla’ meaning glue or the French term ‘collage’ meaning sticking and the English word ‘graphic’ pertaining to printing, drawing or painting. It was the sculptor and printmaker Glen Alps (1914 -1996) who, in 1956, first coined the term ‘collagraph’ while teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Long before Alp’s term ‘collagraph’, artists had been using similar processes mixing gypsum with water to make plaster of paris which was then built up on copper or zinc plates. It is assumed that these plates were printed by hand otherwise, under the pressure of the press, the matrix would have cracked and broken. Other artists, such as Rolf Nesch (1893-1975) made plates by soldering pieces of metal, which had been punched, hammered, cut and drilled, onto a base plate. Nesche also sewed elements onto the plates with wire. Later artists began to experiment with cardboard, paper, rubber cement, carbourundum and lacquers.
The basic and safe materials and adhesives now being used in collagraph printmaking make it one of the easiest and cheapest methods of printmaking, enabling schools and colleges almost anywhere in the world to experiment in this form of printmaking.
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