What is Collagraph/Carborundum printmaking?
[Return to Top of Page] The nature and breadth of Collagraph as a means of creating uniquely rich and interesting printed imagery make it one of the most exciting innovations to take place within printmaking in recent decades. Unlike other intaglio and relief methods, which rely on a set of one or more highly technical processes, Collagraph allows one to work directly with materials, and to explore the qualities of those materials in a much more proactive manner than that allowed by, say, etching. The physical activity involved in creating a collagraph plate is much more in tune with the “intuition”, or the direct interaction with materials, which is so important to many artists. Collagraph is a printmaking technique which operates, as the name suggests, on the basis of collage. It is a particularly robust, direct and unfussy type of printmaking, with the distinct advantage that it helps one avoid the temptations of being too intentional with one`s images, as one might be with lino, li
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