Embossing

I prepared quite a large collagraph at home to use with the 160gm paper that I bought from Spectrum in Birmingham last week.   I spoke to Andy about how to produce this as an embossing and he recommended sealing it with French polish (which turns out to be mainly shellac).  I only did one coat as I was not going to be inking it up at this stage and left it to dry (it takes ages) for about a week.  Today I went into uni and with Steve Butt's help produced five very nice embossings.  These I will use in various ways - 1 as a simple embossing - 2 as a template on which to draw 3 paint 4 embellish etc.  This is my final week in the print room at university as I have alot to do at home getting ready for my trip to Australia on 1 December. 

Printing Collagraphs

Over the past couple of weeks I've been going into university to print my pre-made collagraphs.  (I find it better to work at home where I have all my materials than bring them all into university and then make the collagraphs). 

Here's some of the results:

These are all of the same plate - inked up differently.  The plate is based on a photograph that I took of Clemens Street during my last module.

This is one of the bolts on the railway bridge.

I had my L6 P/T crit on 8 November.  Here are the notes:  "Etching Plate - drawn, etched, cut and embedded.  Look at Boyle family castings.  Tribal journey.  Scale down (interesting because Steve Butt said to make them bigger) embed into wall and carve into.  Colour - why/what for?" 

I started to look at these points and produced a new collagraph plate using my existing photographs for embedding this week:

It's currently drying.