Collage meets printmaking; what could be better?

This winter I took a class to learn how to make mono prints. Fortunately, this teacher also taught collagraphy as I quickly learned that painting with ink on an acrylic surface was not for me. I work with stencils in a lot of my art and so I tried them with this medium. Hooked! This is work from my short class. I will explore more soon.

Before inking the plate I tried a blind emboss. (Thank you advertising background.) Love it. I need to build a bit higher. With a class like this I was not able to experiment with a second or third layer of ink. These monotypes are all made with one pass through the press.

Here is a close up of the blind emboss that I made before printing with color.

I love conceptual wordplay and you’ll find it in a lot of my art. Here’s the first one I did in this medium. It plays on the experience of learning a new thing and wanting to do it right as well as taking into account that what I am learning is a “graphy” meaning “to write.”