The Utah Division of Arts and Museums Creative Aging Program in collaboration with South Salt Lake City Arts Council and Saltgrass Printmakers offered a Collograph Printmaking Class to people 55 and older. The class was being taught by one of my favorite printmakers, Stefanie Dykes, so I signed up immediately. It was six weeks of joyful making that flew by. We ended the class with a show at the Columbus center in South Salt Lake City.
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| Stefanie Dykes |
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| Hi! It's me! |
Collograph is a process of printmaking where a textured plate is inked up and put through a printing press.
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One of my first plates, created with paper and tape.
It was inspired by the painting below. |
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The bumpy packing paper I used for the circles.
It came in a package my daughter-in-law received.
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My first print on a piece of shibori dyed raw silk
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| I carved a stamp of hands sewing for my piece. |
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I applied dry wall paste to a piece of book board and then pressed the stamp in to the paste.
It held the image perfectly.
I used a couple of pen caps to create the circles around the stamped image.
Once the paste was dry, I sealed it with shellac. |
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A few of my final plates.
Top: stamp pressed into dry wall paste; quilted fabrics sealed with gel medium
Middle: Plate from a few photos up; paper cut into hexagons and then stitched on sewing machine before sealing with gel medium.
Bottomish: Cotton yarn Crocheted and then sealed with gel medium; cross stitch and embroidery on burlap, Mistyfused to book board and then sealed with gel medium.
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| Stefanie putting my fabric and plates through the press while I filmed. |
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My plates printed on three different pieces of raw silk.
I experimented on linen, cotton and silk and ended up liking the shibori dyed raw silk best. After printing, and letting it dry for a few days I added some simple embroidery stitches. |
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| Love this giant cutting board that makes easy work of chopping up book board. |
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| Stefanie demonstrating the inking process. |
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| Stefanie and all nine of her students at the final showing. |
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| The show was held in the foyer (?) of the Columbus Center in South Salt Lake City. |
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| Stefanie Dykes |
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| Anita Albright |
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| Leslie Proctor |
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| Marti Ashby |
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| Helen Peters |
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| Michael |
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| Joe Nigro |
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| Marla Duggins |
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| Lora Kohler |
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| Nancy Monteith |
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My first prints on paper.
Top plate was created using just masking tape. |
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| Lisa Chin |
It was a fun and informative class.
Looks like we are going to start a Collagraph club and meet once a month to print.
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