Introduction to Printmaking

1. Printmaking

2. Printmaking
• The transfer of an image from one surface to
another surface.
• Printmakers produce multiples of the same
piece, which is called a print.
• Each piece is not a copy but an original since it
is not a reproduction of another work of art

3. Major Types of Printmaking:
• Relief
• Intaglio
• Lithography
• Serigraphy (screenprinting)

4. • Henri Matisse, from Pasiphae suite, 1944, linocut

5. • Walter Joseph Phillips(1884-1963): York boat on Lake Winnipeg, 1930, woodcut

6. Albrecht Durer St. Michael's fight against the dragon ,1498 Woodcut

7. M.C. Escher, Day and Night Woodcut in black and gray, printed from two blocks (15 3/8 x 26 5/8 in.)

8. • Woodcut: Ernst Kirchner, Alpine Shepherd, 1917

9. Edition
• The number of
images printed
from the block
• The body of the
edition is
numbered
directly on the
print, usually in
pencil.
Nathalie Roland
title: Cervidae Arboreous: tiny army edition

10. Numbering
• Numbering
indicates the size
of the edition
and the number
of each particular
print.
• 25/75 means
that the print is
the 25th
impression from
an edition of 75.

11. Artist's Proofs
• A print of
edition quality,
but separate
from the
numbered
edition
that is kept by
the artist.
• noted in pencil
as artist proof
or A/P

12. Proof
• A print pulled for
examination
while working
on the block.
The Tyler Graphics team pulling a proof of Freefall, a
woodcut by Helen Frankenthaler

13. Monoprint
• A print that cannot exactly be reproduced
Basic etching, printed
before Final print was
applied with brushes
Final print
Colleen Corradi, Rapsodia

14. Ghost Print
• A print made from the remaining ink on a
block or plate after a print has been pulled.
Belinda Del Pesco, lithography

15. • Andy Warhol (1928-1987): A Set of Six Self-Portraits, 1967, oil and
silkscreen on canvas

16. Andy Warhol, Marilyn 1967