2. Choose 2 from each sections
Extra marks if you do all 3!
What is print?
Hand Mechanical Digital
Etching Letterpress Photocopying
Linocut Gravure Laser printing
Lithography Screen process Desktop publishing
3. Skills
Cost Time Pictures
Etching £157.00 Up to 7 hours
Printmaking is the
process of making
artworks by printing,
normally on paper. A
waxy acid-resist, known
as a ground, is applied to
a metal plate, most
often copper or zinc but
steel plate is another
medium with different
qualities
Linocut is a printmaking £35-50 Up to 7 hours
technique, a variant of
woodcut in which a
sheet of linoleum
(sometimes mounted on
a wooden block) is used
for the relief surface. A
design is cut into the
linoleum surface with a
sharp knife, V-shaped
chisel or gouge, with the
raised (uncared) areas
representing a reversal
(mirror image) of the
parts to show printed.
