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hello everyone welcome back to the aga

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studios

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today we’re going to be exploring a

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process called callography

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what’s callography well it’s a form of

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printmaking

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that uses collage to build up a matrix

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or a plate

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and then you print from that what’s

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unique about callography

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is that it can both be an in a relief

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printing process or intelio printing

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process

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now there are a couple of ways that you

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can do calligraphy

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you can use mixed-media materials things

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that are flat

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like pipe cleaners bread tags puzzle

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pieces

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paper clips string whatever you have um

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you can also this is one of my favorite

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little books

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i have a couple of examples in here too

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of

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using material so different textured

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materials

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and just gluing them to a base or

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paper and that’s what we’re going to be

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doing today we’re going to create

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an image using just paper

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let’s put it together decide which

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direction you want your plate to be in

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so horizontal or vertical

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cut or rip your scrap paper into shapes

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and place them on the plate

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work out a couple of compositions

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keep working with the different shapes

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placing them

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in different ways until you come up with

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something

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that you really like

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pick your favorite and then glue down

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your composition and let dry

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okay once your plate is ready to go add

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paint to your

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to your matrix when using paint you’ll

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have to work fast you don’t want the

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paint to dry

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so go ahead you might want to mix up a

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couple of colors

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just ahead of time just so that you

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have a range to work with so we’ll add

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a little bit of blue there

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green here

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now

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nice mellow yellow

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here okay so

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now the next thing that you’ll want to

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do is try to cover your plate as quickly

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as possible so i’m just going to turn my

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plate this way just so

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it’s easy for me to get the color in so

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i’m going to start with the light color

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just sort of get that in first

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in principle it’s good to start from

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light color to dark color

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so done

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starts

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you want to work really fast a sponge

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get those layers

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and then you can always go back with the

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paintbrush

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don’t be afraid to mix colors on the

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plate as well you can also do that

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and once you’re happy with

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your

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paint and it’s still wet

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just take a piece of paper hold it

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down on your sheet of paper i like to

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give it a bit of a rub

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and if you want to use a spoon you can

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rub all around

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really get into the areas that you put

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once you’ve given it a good rub

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everywhere

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let’s find a lot of pressure

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you can slowly pull up the corner and

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just peel back

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your print ta-da

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i hope you have a chance to try this at

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home

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and please share with us happy creating

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