Chine Collee, an exquisite detail
Chine collee on a monoprint. The art paper is BFK. The art is painted on a plexiglass plate with oil-based printing inks. When printed, the plate leaves an embossed "frame" around the edge of the artwork.
The following are two images of chine collee, used for the presentation of fine art from other media.
"The Mailbox," watercolor, is chine colleed onto another sheet of fine art paper for presentation. The artwork is glued to the larger sheet, a piece of matboard cut to the size of the desired indentation is placed on the printing press first, the artwork with its backing sheet is centered upside down on the matboard, and the whole is run through the press. When it comes out, the matboard is discarded and the artwork is chine colleed, with an embossed edge, ready for framing. If you don't have a press, you can do this with your fingers, carefully pressing along the edge of the matboard to make the indentation.
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