See a comprehensive overview printmaking techniques: intaglio, relief, silkscreening, lithography, and more. Explained are the various techniques to provide depth and insight into the process of printmaking.
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Discussion with Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Mia Rozear and Guest Artist Dorian Epps.
Video Walkthrough
- Printmaking techniques have an enormous range: printmaking that requires years of training and professional equipment, to printing at home with potato prints
- Printmaking is often known as “art for the people” since it made it possible for more people to afford prints at a lower price compared to paintings.
- Many printmaking processes require tons of diverse materials, as well as an understanding of the role each of those materials within each process.
- Craftsmanship in printmaking can be very challenging, you’d be surprised how hard it can be to pull a print that doesn’t have fingerprints on it!
- In the past many printmaking materials have been highly toxic, there has been a push for safter materials.
- An example would be using ferric chloride to etch copper plates, instead of using nitric acid to etch zinc plates.
- Some printmaking techniques require a press, while others can be done with hand printing.
- Techniques like lithography and intaglio require extensive training and a professional printshop to do.
- There is a community aspect to being a printmaker; working in a shop with others, sharing supplies and spaces.
- Printmaking requires a lot of patience, often if you want to print an edition of 5 prints you could find yourself printing 20 to get 5 that will work!
- No matter how much experience you have as a printmaking, there is constant troubleshooting in the process.
- There are many intaglio printmaking processes, and they are often used in combination with each other.
- There are both acid and non-acid processes in intaglio printmaking.
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Techniques Mentioned
Lithography
- Lithographic Stones
- Aluminum Plates
- Photo Lithography
Intaglio
relief
- Rubber Stamps
- Linoleum Blocks
- Woodcut
- Wood Engraving
Image transfers
- Citrasolv
- Acrylic & Gelli Plates
- Wintergreen Oil
Collagraphs
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Artists Mentioned
- John Baldessari
- Edward Bernstein
- Mary Cassatt
- Elizabeth Catlett
- Vija Celmins
- John Crome
- Honoré Daumier
- Edgar Degas
- Albrecht Dürer
- Eric Fischl
- Francisco Goya
- Edward Henderson
- Hokusai
- Sidney Hurwitz
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Michael Mazur
- Frederick Mershimer
- Barry Moser
- Rolf Nesch
- Chris Ofili
- Pablo Picasso
- Andrew Raftery
- Rembrandt
- Edward Stasack
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Kara Walker
- Mikio Watanabe
- James McNeill Whistler
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Books Mentioned
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