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Printmaking

Printmaking. The art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, dry point, woodcut, or serigraphy. Why is printmaking important? What is it good for?.

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Printmaking

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  1. Printmaking The art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, dry point, woodcut, or serigraphy

  2. Why is printmaking important? What is it good for? • Printmaking is important, because it allows an artist or person to print the exact same image multiple times without having to redraw it over and over and over again. Therefore, if someone needs to make a large amount of copies of the same image, they often turn to printmaking.

  3. Some examples…?

  4. Printmaking • There are several types of printmaking… • Relief Printing • woodcut • linoleum • Etching • Screen printing • Lithography

  5. Etching • The act or process of making decisions or pictures on a metal plate, glass, etc, by the corrosive action of an acid

  6. Screen printing • A print made by using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil

  7. Lithography • The process of printing from a flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for printing

  8. Examples: • Woodcut • Linoleum • stamps Relief Printing • Printing methods in which a block of wood, linoleum, or some other material’s surface is carved so that an image can be printed from it

  9. Common Tools and terms of Relief Printing • Gouge • Brayer • Burnish • Artist’s Proof • Edition • Registration

  10. Gouge • An engraving tool used to carve out linoleum

  11. Brayer • A tool used to roll ink onto a surface by hand, usually in block printing

  12. Burnish • To rub (evenly burnish the paper over the inked linoleum to transfer the ink)

  13. Artist’s Proof • The first prints used to determine if additional gouging is needed: signed AP

  14. Edition • A set of identical prints

  15. Registration • In pencil lightly mark paper at 4 corner margins to place block in center of paper

  16. How to Sign an Art Print • Below the print, place the edition or AP in the left hand side, the title in the middle, and your signature at the right hand side

  17. Printmaking things to remember when creating a relief print… • When creating a woodcut, linoleum cut, or other type of printing plate, you have to draw things or write words BACKWARD as it will appear the opposite way on the actual print • The raised areas or the areas you leave when you carve the design are what will print • If while you are carving, your hand slips and accidentally makes a mark…that mark WILL show on the print • The print paper must always have NO marks on it

  18. Albrecht Durer • Completed a largeamount of religious works,prints, and paintings in his lifetime • Known for his signature/logo Etching

  19. Andy Warhol – screen print • “The Factory” • Comic relief in MIB 3 • One of the most famous artists

  20. Kathe Kollwitz Lithograph • Kathe Kollwitz… • - Artwork displays misery of her life • Had a very depressing life… • Husband, son, and grandson died Etching

  21. Francisco Goya Etching • Started as a painter and was evennamed Director of the Royal Academy • Created a series of etchings titled“the Horrors of War” Etching and aquatint

  22. Examples for your project…

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