Define Printmaking

Explain the Hierarchy of Relief Printmaking

Name three artists who use printmaking as their art techniques

Name at least five tools needed for relief printmaking

Correctly sign my prints

•The creation of images by various methods of replication onto various materials such as paper, fabric etc.

Basic printmaking and prints are made from a single “plate.”

We will be creating a Relief print: Relief printing –the background usually cut

down leaving raised image which takes the ink(are usually wood and linoleum)

Linocut techniques are similar to woodcut except woodcut is on wood and linocut is on linoleum

Linocut offers an easier working surface, more precision, and more variety of effects

Munch is know for “the scream” painting, but he also has works created from the woodcut technique

Stencils are used as another method of print

In this Screen Printing process a design is drawn directly onto the screen, and undrawn areas are sealed with glue, varnish or tape.

Oil-based ink is then squeezed through the mesh of the silkscreen onto paper.

Printmaking technique where the artist draws on a limestone surface with a waxy type crayon. The ink will not stick to the crayon areas, but it will stick to the stone areas.

Lithography became his favorite printing technique.

He found that color lithography to be perfect graphic medium for his art.

In a span of 35 years, Chagall’s enthusiasm for printing resulted in a creation of over 1,000 color and black and white lithographs.

Design scratched directly onto plate (usually copper) with sharp pointed instrument

Lines in a drypoint print are characterized by soft fuzziness caused by ink from the burr or rough metal edged lifted up on each side of the furrow made by the etching tool

Kathe KollwitzThe Prisoners1908etching and soft-ground etching

Kathe KollwitzPoverty1893-94

etching and drypoint

2/15 “Poverty” Kathe Kollwitz (Edition: Number out of total prints) (Artwork title) (Signature of your first and last name)

Note: Edition is at the bottom far left, title, in quotes, is in the middle and your 1st and last name are at the bottom far right. The writing DOES NOT go outside the picture’s edge.

http://www.studio360.org/americanicons/episodes/2005/12/08

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