Preparing found materials for intaglio printing
“How could I print from that?”Was the question I asked myself when I found this...
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Author: Emily Harvey
Inking collagraphs to enhance textures
in this post I am taking you through an experiment I did to ink the plates and make the textures look even more 3d.
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Pricing your original prints
In this post I am aiming to help you feel more confident about deciding on a price for your original prints.
I have a quick handy method to check that I am thinking on the right lines with pricing. It works as an initial guide to provide a base line and can be tweaked as needed, taking some of the guesswork out of pricing your original prints.
Explore design with aluminium tape
its not just about technique and special effects; the role of design is to help organise all this material, bringing it together in a coherent way, and enabling you to express and share your ideas in a print.
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Tar Gel for collagraph plates
Tar gel is fantastic stuff to add to collagraph plates, it will help you create lively dynamic effects, and is really fun to use as welI.I assumed that everybody knew about Tar Gel, but recently when…
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Traditional Papermaking
Visiting Moulin du Verger for a conversation with Jaques Brejoux, (with my pretty rusty French and his pretty good English) felt like stepping back several centuries to a time when the master paper maker was an artist in his own right.
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