What is printmaking

What is Printmaking? Flip it and we are….. Making Print.

Making Print• Print • verb (used with object) 1. to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by

applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material by direct pressure.

• 2. to reproduce (a design or pattern) by engraving on a plate or block.

• 3. to form a design or pattern upon, as by stamping with an engraved plate or block: to print calico.

• 4. to be published in print. • 5. to write in letters like those commonly used in print: Print

your name on these forms.

4 Major Processes to Create Prints

• Relief• Intaglio• Planographic.• Stencil

Ahhhh! Well, that’s a Relief….print.

• Relief: where ink is applied to the original surface of the matrix.

• A= Matrix• B= Paper

• -= Ink

• Relief techniques include: woodcut or woodblock as the Asian forms are usually known, wood engraving, linocut and metalcut;

The majority of the prints you create will be made in the Relief Printing Process.

Examples of Relief Printing

Intaglio

• Intaglio: where ink is applied beneath the original surface of the matrix.

• Intaglio techniques include: engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint

• We will most likely NOT be using this technique in this class.

Intaglio Examples

Planographic

• Planographic: where the matrix retains its original surface, but is specially prepared and/or inked to allow for the transfer of the image.

• Planographic techniques include: lithography, monotyping, and digital techniques.

Stencil

• Stencil: where ink or paint is pressed through a prepared screen,

• including: screenprinting and pochoir.