Zea Mays Printmaking/Collagraph with Alessia De Bortoli

Collagraph with Alessia De Bortoli

Collagraph is a very enjoyable printmaking technique, allowing diverse means of artistic expression. Using simple materials such as cardboard, paper, tapes, textures, and carborundum grit to create plates that can be inked and printed in a myriad of ways.  Alessia De Bortoli of Scuola Internazionale di Grafica (Venice, Italy) shows us how to create a collagraph plate and the procedure for printing it both as an intaglio and a relief print, using an etching press.