Description and examples of forms of printmaking

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

2. 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.

3. 4 Major Processes to Create Prints
• Relief
• Intaglio
• Planographic.
• Stencil

4. 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.

5. Examples of Relief Printing

6. 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.

7. Intaglio Examples

8. 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.

10. Stencil
• Stencil: where ink or paint is pressed
through a prepared screen,
• including: screenprinting and pochoir.