Atelier de prélèvement fond pour La Manivelle - Fundraising workshop for La Manivelle

débutant bienvenue: beginners welcome

samedi le 4 mai de 10h00 a 4h00

saturday May 4^th from 10h00 t0 4h00

Atelier de collagraphie avec DENISE COMEAU 

collagraphs with DENISE COMEAU

50$  tout matériels compris sauf le papier qui est disponible à La Manivelle - 

50$ all materials include except paper which is available at La Manivelle

WHAT IS A COLLAGRAPH?

Collagraph is a printmaking technique which operates, as the name suggests, on the basis of collage. It is a particularly robust, direct and unfussy type of printmaking, with the distinct advantage that it helps one avoid the temptations of being too intentional with one`s images, as one might be with lino, line-etching, or silkscreen. Because the surfaces one creates are relatively unpredictable and indirect, one avoids the temptation merely to illustrate.

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THE BASIC PROCESS.
By adding marks, textures and surfaces to a thin base plate, a low relief is created. This can then be inked up in a number of ways:-
a) by rubbing ink, or inks, into the grooves and fissures (the intaglio). The superficial ink is then wiped away using cotton rag, and a print can be taken which echoes the deeper surfaces of the plate (this is the basic principle of an intaglio print).
b) by rolling ink, or inks, over the top surfaces and then taking a print (a relief print)
c) by rubbing ink, or inks, into the grooves and fissures (the intaglio), wiping away the superficial ink using cotton rag, and then rolling ink, or inks, over the top surfaces (a relief print and intaglio print combined).
The result of the last inking process is a particularly rich image.
There are refinements to all these processes.

Contacter Karen Boudreau - 769-0269 karenlboudreau@eastlink.ca