How To Make A Mat Board Collagraph

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How to make a mat board collagraph.

How to make a mat board collagraph plate. A collagraph print of a bathroom sink created on a sheet of mat board inked in multiple colors and pulled after a trip through a press your cuts into the back of a sheet of matvboard must be shallow to hold ink and keep the floor of those recessed lines close enough to the surface that paper can make contact with the pigments. After sketching a young woman s face and hair with watercolor on the verso of a scrap piece of mat board i used a standard 11 exacto knife to incise lines around shapes i wanted to print as dark areas. Layering cut shapes from construction paper and adhering them to a sheet of mat board also called mount board press board and passe partout in other parts of the world will create enough topography to print a beautiful collagraph print.

Take the frame apart and use it s existing mat as a tracing guide. Lay the mat board on non skid shelf liner to keep it steady and begin carving the line work out of the top layer. Then instead of cutting any additional hole for the art piece to sit behind i just use double sided tape to stick down my art piece right onto the bristol board itself centered obviously. Each shape was outlined in a very shallow cut i peeled the uppermost layer of mat board away.

Draw your design on the back smoothest side of the mat board seal the plate with the acrylic gloss medium and varnish thoroughly on the front back and all edges.