Chine Colle refers to chinese rice-paper collage paired with linocut printing. I fell in love with using all sorts of beautiful papers to add color, texture and depth of mood to my linocuts. I began cutting away more and more linoleum to let the colors and patterns come through.
After exhausting commercial colored rice papers,  I embarked on creating my own papers with monoprint and gell printing. This opened up a whole new world of color and textutre in my prints. This also allowed me to use colors of my exact choosing.
I have modified the Chine Colle process to add collage. The way that I do this is first, I think about color story for my image. Next, I print about 9 sheets of colored, textured papers to print on. For this part I have dicovered many wonderful papers to print on such as all rice papers, deli wrap, teabag paper, and random found papers.
After that, I print my linocut image on to each paper.
Lastly, I take those images and cut them up and collage them together to create an edition of seven. I look for ways to express the image in different contexts that portray a rich perspective of color, texture, and light.That means seven prints of the same image and each print will be unique in its color story and mood.