Creating a Collagraph and Gelli Plate Painting Collage

This course demonstrates creating a layered landscape print with a gelli plate, acrylic paint, masking materials, collage papers, and a collagraph impression. It covers composition and color planning, successive plate printing, texture, corrections, and combining printmaking with collage.

Syllabus

Intro
Design introduction
Discussing Colours
Creating background
Drawing out on Dura-lar
Masking off on gelli plate
Applying paint to gelli plate
Printing from the gelli plate
Printing the second part of the rocks
Cleaning the dura-lar
Drawing out the dark shapes contour on dura-lar
Masking off the gelli plate
Inking up the gelli plate
Printing the dark shapes from the gelli plate
Inking up the gelli plate for the sky part
Printing the sky from the gelli plate
Drawing up the distant rocks on dura-lar
Masking off the inking up the gelli plate
Printing the distant rocks from the gelli plate
Printing the background rocks from the gelli plate
Adding collage papers to the artwork
Masking off with Elco paper
Adding the light touches
More masking and printing using elco paper
Creating a gelli pull
Adding more collage papers
Correcting the background rocks
Gelli printing using Frisket film
Adding collagraph print