Embossing images
An embossing to decorate with or as if a raised design. To create an embossing place a piece of damp card over your texture/ collagraph and apply pressure by rolling through the printing press.
An intaglio process in printmaking, using etching or scratching into perspex. This is then inked and excess ink is rubbed away with a damp cloth. The printed image is from the ink that remains in the valleys of the scratched image. The Grade 9's did this using laminated cardboard instead of perspex/ metal.
Lino printing is when you carve into vinyl or lino and the ink prints of the high places. Collagraphs are created by pasting textures on to a piece of card and inking up and printing from the raised textural areas. Lino printing and collagraphs are examples of relief printing.
When you ink up and print from your collagraph, your first print may be too dark. To fix this start a series of ghost prints. This means that you will reprint the collagraph on a new piece of card without a new layer of ink.
Collagraph example
top left: 1st print, bottom left: 1st ghost print
