Design Play: Exercise 5 – Textures – Part 3

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Claire B

‘Other World’ Print Plates

In my post of 16th February I created my first 3 collagraph print plates for this series + 2 masks. Here are plates 6 & 7, the final ones for this body of work.

PLATE 6

Mountboard, carborundum suspended in PVA glue, cut sections, scratching, shellac sealant

Inspiration:

Clockwise from top left: Rusty pipeline, rocky foreshore, cliff face, tree trunk

PLATE 7

320 grade sandpaper, shellac sealant

Inspiration:

As the last sandpaper masks worked well as faux aquatint I’m sticking with it. This time the sandpaper is slightly coarser at 320 grade as opposed to 400 grade previously.

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3 Responses to Design Play: Exercise 5 – Textures – Part 3

ainescannell says:

March 12, 2019 at 12:27 pm

Hello again Claire B………..I have been following your blog for a long time now……..I was just thinking to myself ” I wonder if she is aware of “The Curious Printmakers” website ? You will enjoy it and find it inspiring …………………http://www.thecuriousprintmaker.co.uk

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- Claire B says:
  
  March 13, 2019 at 1:23 pm
  
  Thank you so much for the link to this website. Of course, you’re right, I love it! I’ve just subscribed to get the posts every time Emily publishes anything.
  I’m just getting a cuppa and sitting down in front of the screen for a while to go through some of the posts.
  That was really kind of you to think about me. I’m just a print-junkie!
  
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