In this run up to Christmas, I haven’t had any work on, so I have had plenty of time to catch up with things, write some blog posts, scan prints and a host of other things. I have even managed to tidy up my dining room and now we can eat at the table. I have now finished printing up the collagraphs I made here, and will be having a short break from printing to enjoy doing other things.
As I mentioned before, the first print is usually a test print. On one of my walks, I found some moss, lichen, and bark. I made up a collagraph plate with moss and bark and some other plant matter. I was hoping that it would look like a rotten tree trunk that I had seen in the woods. When putting the first print through the press, I got the above, minus the pencil work. I had to raise the rollers up during printing as the plate wouldn’t go through properly. I ended up with a dark line at the top of the print where I started rolling. The printing got better and even the more prints I made, as the press does flatten down the plant matter.
However, I wasn’t 100% with my prints, until I turned it over.
The print line made a natural surface where a plant is sitting. As I started to embellish each print with watercolor to make a surface, I noticed that there was a sort of face in the bark, so I highlighted that with some Derwent Graphitint pencils. That is how I made The Green Man. Six of these were printed on Acid Free Mixed Media paper and are now listed in my Etsy Shop here.
The image is 4×5 inches on A4 paper and can be framed in a more square format or portrait.
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