This article is about the printmaking process. For the photographic process, see Collotype. For decorative writing, see Calligraphy.
Collagraphs demonstrating both relief and intaglio-inking.
Collagraphy (sometimes spelled collography) is a printmaking process in which materials are glued or sealed to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood) to create a plate.[1] Once inked, the plate becomes a tool for imprinting the design onto paper or another medium. The resulting print is termed a collagraph. The term "collagraph" was coined by Glen Alps in the 1950s, and is derived from the Greek word koll or kolla, meaning glue, and graph, meaning the activity of drawing.[2]
Examples of collagraph plates using a variety of materials.
Artists use a variety of materials in collagraphy, including yarn, fabric, tape, different varieties of cut paper or card, leaves, and acrylic mediums.[3][2] The application of ink onto the collagraph plate is versatile, consisting of intaglio-inking into recesses, brayer or paintbrush inking onto relief surfaces, or a combination of these methods. A print can be made with or without use of a press.[4]
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Collagraphy (sometimes spelled collography) is a printmaking process in which materials are glued or sealed to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or...
paper. Although the inventor of the process is not known, Alps made collagraphy his primary art form and coined the word "collagraph" in 1956. He disseminated...
or cavities in the surface of the matrix. Intaglio techniques include collagraphy, engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint. Planographic, where the matrix...
tenure at Newcomb College, experimenting with the serigraph process, collagraphy, lithography, and toner drawings, among others. Beginning in the early...
career, she used, either singly or in combination, woodcuts, linocuts, collagraphy, photo-etching, paper embossing, silk-screen, sugar lift, the Hayter...
and Culture Image collection, physical piece owned by UDLAP: Ninez, collagraphy print, 75 x 55 cm made in 2015. This is a black-and-white image of a...
printmaking throughout the next decade, teaching herself woodcut, etching, and collagraphy. She earned a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant for printmaking at the Instituto...
of serigraphy, linocut, woodcut, lithography, cardboard engraving and collagraphy). The artist's works are in many museum collections in Russia (State...
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