Collagraph

Next we tried collagraph. This is basically building a collage image on a board and printing it. Making the boards was great fun. Colours needed to be relevant too. The colours I used were green (healthy, balanced levels), red (high levels), orange (low levels).

I first created a board - a pineapple with a grid. The grid is to represent the structure and organisation that has to go behind making sure the right foods are prepared etc. (sorry for sounding boring about it - just need to explain my rationale).

This board was made out of paper, pva glue, masking tape, wood glue carborundum, tile adhesive and french polish to seal it:

Here are some images that I printed:

While rolling up, the impression of the pineapple stayed in the ink on the roller. I rolled this out and this is what came out - I like it.

Next I made a plate of a strawberry. I used a paper doiley, tissue paper and acrylic paint, sealed then with french polish:

I didn't really like how the strawberry ones came out, but glad I tried them anyway to see how the textures looked.

Then I cut up some boards and put some different textures on them - tile adhesive, wood glue, carborundum, tissue paper, tin foil and masking tape. I just wanted to play with them just to see how they would print out.

This is to imply spaghetti

The top part has 6 indentations enclosed which is to symbolise the 6 times a day to eat - confinement.

I just played around with reversing the images and seeing what would happen. This was done on thicker paper too.