New Collagraph Plates.

 This is a selection of new collagraph plates that I sealed with shellac today, a couple are very old texture plates for more simple printing, but others are newly constructed.

 The photo seems to show this one above with indented marks, whereas they are actually in relief. The details are very fine, so it may not print well at all. Click on the photo for a slight enlargement to see the details of cracking that I was trying to get.

Here some gel medium was painted through a 'stone' stencil and I have added pressed 'shivery' grass for the trees, dried pressed lichen for the foreground vegetation with very fine sawdust right at the front. This is a detail of  the larger plate shown in the collection above, but I have a feeling that it won't make a particularly good print.