Whisking tile cement enables you to create collagraph plates with lovely spirals and 3d tube forms which can be quite geometric, or very organic. Continue reading
Whisking tile cement
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Tile Cement Printing Plates
Welcome to the world of Tile Cement, a.k.a. Tile Adhesive.
A big tub of Tile Cement
This wonderfully versatile material is great for a whole range of plate making techniques.
It is a an essential foundation material for any printmaker who makes Continue reading
Printed Postcards from Bridlington
People of all ages joined in with this community project to make printed postcards from Bridlington. It was part of the Artwaves festival, the idea being to bring people together and celebrate Bridlington and East Yorkshire.
The ‘Wolds Wonders’ started it off. This lively theatre group Continue reading
Create crackle texture collagraph plates
If you like textures in printmaking you will love crackle texture. You will have seen this effect on Japanese ceramics and old paintings, it is often used to give the impression of age on painted furniture and ‘vintage’ ornaments.
Crackle texture suggests many associations….
Collagraph print with crackle texture
Drought, desert, geological formations, rock forms, ageing, the effects of time and heat…. Continue reading