Sally Hirst on Instagram: "Busy day!! Continuing with my new project: reusing, reconfiguring and layering up collagraph plates. I’m thrilled with how they are evolving. No plan other than containing the chaos with a ‘grid’ and limited palette, no editioning 🥱, nothing to lose and everything to gain. An artist I follow and admire recently posted how she gave up printmaking in preference for painting as she found it too restrictive? I was tempted to invite up to Norwich for a play 😂 Freedom reig

Mia Kešelj on Instagram: "This current exhibition of mine consists of ten large-format paintings in the acrylic technique on canvas, which were created in the last two years in Poreč, and synthesize my previous artistic experience and are also inspired by Istria and beauty of its nature, sea and landscape, since this is where I have lived and created for more than a decade. Making various markings, traces and mechanical damages are in line with my long-standing interest in graphics and collagrap

How to Make a Collagraph and Print it in Full Color

The making of a collagraph plate and print Made from cardboard and varnish once i have drawn out the image i carve away at the surface of the card peeling back areas to make them more rough and then i coat the whole plate in varnish and build up layers of varnish to create highlights and textures . the print I have to run ink into the surface of the card and polish it off - the ink is held in the cracks and textures - when I put it through the etching press with damp paper a print is made ! to m

PaperArtsy on Instagram: "We are embarking on a new topic called ‘printing’, and here to share all about her collagraphic exploits is @floss_workshop.art who knows a thing or 2 about printing. She used her largest gel plate as a tool to help build up all the layers in this experimental journey. I was fascinated to follow along her process, and how the cardboard template turned into an array of prints loaded with textures, each version teaching her something along the way. Perhaps this might be s