Transcript Printmaking - SkyView Academy

 “Any
of several techniques for making
multiple copies of a single image. Some
examples are woodcuts, etchings,
collographs, and silk screens.” (TVE 502)
 Relief Prints
 Lithography
 Intaglio
 Silk Screening
Intaglio is the process of
engraving and etching into a
metal plate using diluted
acid.
 The plate is covered with a
paint-like substance.
Wherever you remove the
substance, that is where the
acid will etch.
 The ink collects in these
lines and that is what
transferred onto the paper.
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The Blind
Cyprian Shilakoe, 1969
The most commonly used
form of printmaking today.
 Uses the principle that
water and oil do not mix.
 The artist draws on
limestone with an oil-based
crayon or pen, then dips the
surface in water.
 When ink is applied, the wet
stone repels the ink and will
only stick to the oil-based
crayon.
 Its then printed onto paper
using a press.
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Harmonica Blues
Dox Thrash, 1940
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Self Portrait
Andy Warhol
The process of using a
light-sensitive emulsion
on a piece of stretched
silk.
Very common for
printing on clothing.
You transfer an image
(photographic or hand
drawn) onto the screen
by exposing it to light.
Placing your artistic
surface underneath, you
squeegee ink across the
screen and it transfers
onto the surface.
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“A relief print is so called
because the image on
the plate is in relief, that
is, it projects up from the
surface of the plate.” (TVE
226)
Relief comes from the
Latin word levo, meaning
raised.
 If the ink shows where
the artist did not carve
away, what does that tell
you about this particular
print by Dürer?
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Rhinocerus
Albrecht Dürer, 1515
“The artist draws on the block of wood, and then cuts away the
areas that are to remain white. The parts that will be printed are
raised from the background.” (TVE 226)
The Great Wave off Kanagawa,
(series 36 Views of Mt. Fuji)
Katsushika Hokusai c. 1830
How did Kollwitz use line to emphasize the figure?
Describe the way she removed parts of the wood block to create such contrast?
Primary:
 Line
 Texture (simulated)
Secondary
 Emphasis
 Color
Exercise to prepare for
your print making
sketches:
 Make a list of 25
different adjectives.
 With each adjective,
create a line that
pairs, showing the
essence of the
adjective.
 Examples?