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.
Printmaking
Relief prints
Stencil Prints
Linoleum
Woodcut
Screenprint
Resist Prints
Stamped
Mylar
Lithograph
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Basic printmaking and prints are made
from a single “plate.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Kathe Kollwitz
Poverty
1893-94
etching and drypoint
Kathe Kollwitz
The Prisoners
1908
etching and soft-ground etching
2/15
(Edition: Number out of total prints)
“Poverty”
(Artwork title)
Kathe Kollwitz
(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/americanicon
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 http://kickyoutube.com/watch/?v=dDK
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 http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad
/lessons/middle/prints.htm
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