I’ve just spent a lovely weekend at Llanthony Art in the Black Mountains of Wales, doing a fantastic woodcut printmaking workshop taught by painter/printmaker Veronica Gibson. I’ve wanted to try woodcut printmaking for ages – there’s something about the quality of the images that really appeals to me.
I’m definitely going to do more woodcuts, having done this star as a first attempt – but the surprise of the weekend was collagraph printing. Whilst playing I created this series of images, using knit and crochet samples and the printing press.
I love the simple collagraphs, which show off the structure of the fabric so well. And exciting things were starting to happen with embossing the fabric textures into the paper, especially with further woodcut prints on top, which really brought out the structure.
Can’t wait to do more, could someone arrange some more hours in the day please?!
They are beautiful, like little knit x-rays. Love the emboss effect.
Thanks Gemma! Yes, somehow they show off the structure of the fabric better than the piece itself, especially the x-ray ones!
Cool! Going to look up ‘collagraphs’ now.
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