My first collagraph.........

 

......after watching many hours of videos on YouTube, I decided to try this process.  I was also curious if I could use my clay slab roller as a printing press.

I cut a small sheet of mat card and applied GAC-100 (an acrylic medium), LiquiTex Stucco paste and Golden Gloss Gel medium in various shapes.  After the mediums dried, I coated the entire piece with Krylon gloss spray.  The coating is to prevent the matboard from soaking up the ink.

I then applied Akua Intaglio ink and wiped it back with cheese cloth, because I have no scrim (a stiffened cheesecloth material).  Since the cheese cloth is quite flexible, I was careful not to over wipe the plate.   I placed the plate on a piece of matboard atop a silicone mat and then used a towel folded in quarters as a blanket (since I do not have proper felt print blankets).

I set the slab roller to the minimum height and rolled the table twice.

print on the left, plate on the right

The resulting print on 88# (189 gsm) paper embossed fairly well and certainly printed.  I soaked the paper in water for about 10 minutes.   The slab roller works, but obviously a real printing press would offer superior results.  Keep in mind that I have zero experience in making or printing collagraph plates, so this is all just an amusing experiment.