Etching is a very laborious and sometimes frustrating process. It can have some really wonderful results, so it’s well worth pursuing.

Collagraphy (sometimes spelled collography) is a printmaking process introduced in 1955 by Glen Alps in which materials are applied to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood). The word is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing.

The plate can be intaglio-inked, inked with a roller or paintbrush or some combination thereof. Ink or pigment is applied to the resulting collage and the board is used to print onto paper or another material using either a printing press or various hand tools. The resulting print is termed a collagraph.

All my collagraphs are on sale on My Amazon Shop and soon on my Instagram shop

I am available for commissions at very affordable prices, because I love what I do anyway!

Here is some artwork I have been commissioned to do:

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Life drawing classes are always a huge challenge but you learn so much from them. Here is a gallery of my poor attempts…