Collagraph creating

Choose one of your sketches and adapt it into a collagraph printing plate.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To use ideas in sketchbooks to plan and make a collagraph printing plate.

Children will:

• Choose an image from their sketch books to develop and adapt into a collagraph printing plate.
• Choose from a range of materials, based on their texture and the pattern they create, to design a mountain scene collagraph.

• How to make a collagraph print guide
• Collagraph examples

• 20cm² mount board – or cardboard
• PVA
• A range of resources; dry pasta, rice, string, card, material, cotton wool, lentils, newspaper, bubble-wrap, leaves, bark, sand, tin-foil

Collagraph technique guide - YouTube clip