For the first 2 weeks of printmaking, I was introduced to Collography.  I found myself printing various materials like plastic bottles, cardboard cups, string and many other materials I never thought I'd be printing.  The pre-conceived idea I had in my head of only doing etchings and wood block prints quickly vanished.  

Our project is on "Identity" and "Place", whatever we think of this is up to us.  I chose to focus on my own identity and who I am as a person.  The first thing I thought of was music as I have been playing guitar for the last 6 years.  I love it and I play it every spare moment I get so I started with that.

Here are some of the successful collographs I did based on my guitars and my Ipod.

Most of what I did, I cut into the card to give it almost a lino cut effect.  The top image is the iconic Ipod wheel.  I did many of these but this is one example.  

Here are the plates I made and inked up to make these prints.

This is an unsuccessful collagraph plate that I made.  It was supposed to be a close up of the neck of a guitar with the frets made out of watercolour paper.  This was supposed to act like a stencil but backfired horrendously!

The resulting print came out almost completely black and I threw it away straight after.  It only occurred to me later on that I could have put it on the blog!

These are some other prints I did.  These weren't overly successful.  The top one also came out quite messy as it's full of my fingerprints!