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Use newspaper to hold your plate steady and avoid fingerprints. These are quite cheap – bristles may drop out but it doesn’t matter. Cover the whole surface of the plate with ink, paying particular attention to very rough areas (e.g.

Use stiff hogs hair brushes to paint ink onto the plate.

Sometimes I feel like a parrot repeating this to students. Especially if you are wearing plastic gloves – fingerprints will show and mess up your print, your gloves will also get very mucky.

Use newspaper to hold your plate steady and avoid fingerprints.ĭON’T PUT YOUR FINGERS ON THE PLATE.

When you’re finished just chuck the inky magazine in the recycling bin or use it as firelighters.

Work on an old magazine: keep turning the pages over so you have a clean working surface.

Intaglio inking means getting ink into the grooves and rough surfaces of the plate and wiping it off the raised or smooth areas. I’d love to know if you have discovered any other ways of inking and printing a collagraph plate, I’m not saying yours will be better than mine though…Īdditional notes about inking and printing a collagraph plate The collagraph plate A big thank-you to Jose Eugenio for filming it all, some shots taken while balanced on a ladder! I managed to pack all this into about 5 minutes on the video.

I also throw in instructions for printing the plate just to complete the whole process… The video and written notes here begin with mixing inks, then show inking up a plate as intaglio, followed by a layer of relief printed ink. Intaglio inking combined with relief printing Video We remain friends of course, but I am going to show you my way, which I think is the best.

#When making an intaglio print how to

Each printmaker came away convinced they alone knew how to ink up properly.

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The group is not renowned for sensitivity or politeness, and pretty soon the room was full of noisy surprise, doubt, scorn, advice and personal comments about individuals inking up techniques. There are 16 members of Inkers, some people have been printmaking longer than they, or anyone else can remember (60 years?) and we share decades of teaching and technical printmaking experience between us. Everybody got stuck in, no doubt thinking ‘I can do this in my sleep’. We returned to the house and gathered round the big table to ink up our plates. A group of us went out for a walk and made drypoint plates in situ. The Inkers Printmakers group go for a weekend away each year, this time we stayed at Worfolk Cottage near Scarborough. I know from experience that ‘inking up’ can get pretty heated. It is still fun to argue about the best way to ink up a plate though! The first thing to say is that each printmaker is unique and everybody does it differently.

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