Oh, I love viscosity printing. It takes a long time to set up, but once you’re set up, you can print off quite a number of collographs in not toooo much time. Yesterday I did a full day viscosity printing with Seraphina Martin. Such fun! Seraphina is a great teacher and always calm, which is just what you need in a print-making teacher. This was the first Sunday of three winter Sundays, once a month. I learnt collographs from Seraphina at the Sydney Gallery School (Meadowbank Campus), and it’s good to be back doing them again. If you go to the Gallery School website & click on “Printmaking 1″ the illustration on that page is one of the etchings I did while I was there.
I did eleven prints yesterday. I had seven new collograph plates, all on a sea/shipwreck theme, and one old plate that I still like and want more prints from. The ship theme prints are ‘bleed printed’. That means that the paper I’m printing onto is placed withing the edges of the plate, while I print it, so that the print goes right to the very edge of the paper. In this case, I have left a border left on the left-hand side, because I plan to bind these prints into a book in japanese stab-bound style, and that blank area will be hidden in the binding.
These plates were made on mat board, with texture from impasto medium, and some textured paper. The lines of 
the ships’ rigging were made by gouging with a stylus.
This image of kelp is just painted on with impasto medium. It is very strange how, even in the medium of collographs, my prints look very much like my prints, when arrayed out to dry with the work of others.
Note, see my GLOSSARY page for information on any terms I’ve used that are new to you.
Those are amazing looking! I did a google search to find out more about this. Beautiful artwork
Anita
Wonderful prints – I want to do that now. Of course, very inspirational. I’ll need to look it up too, like Sliloh. And the colours are amazing – as you said I’m sure they have your imprint all over them. Carol
printmaking is something I’ve always wanted to try. You inspire me! These are beautiful.
Very beautiful, Wendy! I was fascinated by the description of the process because I just held a collograph in my hand for the very first time the other day, and was dying to know how to do it. I think I’d need a workshop first, though!
I’m going to go have a look at yours now on the Gallery School website.
Hmm…I have not yet tried impasto medium (I’ve been using PVA glue and gesso), but might give that a whirl.
(I came here via barnaclegoose and have bookmarked you)
These look fabulous. I’d love to see shots of the plates.