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7. Now turn the plate attached to your paper carefully over. Using a spoon, rub all over your design in
small circles.

8. Peel the paper off the plate and store it in a safe place to dry. Clean your plate properly.

Creating and printing a collograph:

A collograph is a print of a design made from a collage of various materials. When the plate is inked
up these materials make interesting patterns, lines and textures.
1. Find a plate to work on top of – this can be a piece of cardboard or masonite – anything strong
enough to support the materials you will stick onto your plate.

2. Collect a wide variety of materials and small objects, both natural and manmade.
3. Design your image and continue to collect suitable and original materials. Start assigning the
different materials to represent areas in your design.

4. Draw or trace your design onto your plate using a pencil or a pen. Now begin to stick the materials
onto the design. Remember to use a strong glue. It is extremely important that you stick materials
that have similar thicknesses down onto the plate, and that the thickness of the materials you have
chosen is not too great (they do not stick too far out off the plate). Another aspect to consider is the
strength of the materials – some materials could break or flatten under the pressure of the roller or
printing press, destroying the effect you wanted to create.

5. Now ink your plate up following the process for printing a lino print. You can also use a printing
press if your school has this facility.

Create in 2D: Use simple printmaking techniques , varying the paper size

and detail, incorporating the art elements and design principles

Remember the following things when you are printing:
x You are using ink (or paint mixed with a little dishwashing liquid) to do your design which is quite
messy, and may not come out of your clothes so wear a smock over your uniforms
x Keep you work surface clean and tidy as it is easy to get ink smudged on the work area and
then onto your final print
x Remember to spread the ink evenly across your plate so that the entire design comes onto your
paper.

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