Today's class- The topic today was printmaking. We looked at slides of various print media- woodcut, etching, lithography, screen print, monotype- covering from the early Renaissance to contemporary art. After that I showed the above example of a collograph plate and print and talked about the process. Students started making a collograph plate using various materials I provided. Some students did their oral presentations regarding their research papers.How to make this up- Build your own collograph plate. A collograph (from the word "collage") is a print made from a plate that is made by attaching items with a variety of textures to a flat surface. Start with an 8"x10" piece of cardboard. Materials can include both natural and artificial items. The above example includes fabric, textured vinyl, 3 different kinds of leaves, yarn, corregated cardboard, crumpled paper towel, and a plastic candy wrapper. On the right is the collograph plate, on the left is a print on paper made from the plate. You need to have a minimum of 8 different textures in your collograph. The items in yours should be arranged to make some kind of recognizable image (landscape, interior, person, thing, etc). Don't worry about the color of the items you attach, in the print made from the plate all will be colored by the ink used to print it.
