Creating collographs

On Thursday, a couple of the girls and I got together at school to create some collographs and practice a little printmaking.

I have concentrated on creating collographs in a stencil style for practice, as well as using some leaves if dried that morning in the oven. I dried them flat between 2 sheets of grease prove paper and weighted them with some baking tins. Ultimately I didn't use them for printing as they were to brittle to use even after coating them with shellac. On the left is a scan of one of them.

I recently bought some Faust Aqualine Inks, which are easily cleaned up in water, so we used them. We all forgot to bring any paper for printing.