What is ART to YOU?

Why do YOU want to create ART?

What do you want to SAY with your ART?

What do you want others to FEEL when they view your art?

Introduction to

P R I N T M A K I N G

PRINTMAKINGPRINTING PLATE the surface on

which the picture or design is made this is also called your MATRIX.

A plate can be anything from copper to a plastic cutting board.

PRINTMAKINGprocess

To produce a print, a piece of paper is pressed against an inked plate. This

process can be repeated many times, making many prints from one image.

PRINTMAKING PRESS

Laura ÁlvarezThe Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive,1999, serigraph (#45 of 56)

Ester HernándezLibertad (Liberty), 1987Etching (#36 of 50)

PRINTMAKING TechniquesRelief

SilkscreenLithography

Intaglio

MonoprintCollagraph

PRINTMAKING TechniquesIntaglio

Intaglio prints are made by

cutting or drawing lines into a metal

plate. The lines you draw

are printed.

PRINTMAKING TechniquesIntaglio PRINT

1. Cut into a metal plate with tools or acid. It’s called a DRY POINT when no acid is used.

2. Roll ink onto the plate 3. Finally, run the plate and a piece of paper through a press.

An etching is a kind of print made by:

The photo on the left shows a close-up of a metal plate.

The photo on the right is a print made by rolling white ink on the plate, cleaning the ink off the top surface,

placing a piece of black paper over the plate and running it through a press. The press pulls the ink

from the plate onto the paper and makes a reversed image.

“Custom Service” is an etching by Tony Ortega.

He cut lines into a metal plate, used ink and a

press to print black lines on top of a U.S. Customs form.

After the black lines were printed, he hand colored the print with

watercolors.Tony Ortega

Custom Serviceetching, watercolor

PRINTMAKING TechniquesRelief (wood or linoleum)

Made by carving into

the surface of a plate. Ink clings to the un-carved

surface of the plate.

Linoleum Relief PrintPRINTMAKING Techniques

ReliefPRINTMAKING Techniques

PLATE PRINT

WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?

ReliefPRINTMAKING Techniques

PLATE PRINT

Prints print in reverse!

A woodcut print is made by:

1) carving into the surface of a block of wood

2) rolling ink on the surface

3) laying a piece of paper over the block

4) applying pressure to make the print.

Woodblock Relief PrintPRINTMAKING Techniques

Woodblock Relief PrintPRINTMAKING Techniques

An artist makes a lithograph by drawing with an oily crayon on a piece of limestone (or other appropriate surface). The stone surface is covered with a liquid so only the crayon marks are exposed.

Then oil-based ink isrolled on the surfacesticking only to the drawing. A piece of paper is laid over the stone, which is run through a press to make the print.

LithographyPRINTMAKING Techniques

A silkscreen print is made by blocking out sections of a piece of mesh fabric (such as silk or other synthetic fabrics) stretched in a frame. The printmaker uses a squeegee to force thick ink through the unblocked

areas of fabric onto a piece of paper placed under the screen. (A serigraph print is not reversed.)

PRINTMAKING TechniquesSILKSCREEN

PRINTMAKING TechniquesSILKSCREEN Prints are

essentially stenciling. Images are placed on a

screen and ink is pulled

through with a squeegee.

Artist Laura Álvarez made this print using a serigraph printing technique.

How many colors can you identify?

Each color was made with a separate screen.

Laura ÁlvarezThe Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive serigraph, 1999

PRINTMAKING TechniquesSILKSCREEN

PRINTMAKING TechniquesCOLLAGRAPH

A Collagraph print is a collage printmaking technique and is a form of Intaglio printing. The collagraph plate is printed in the same way as etchings, but also include the basic

principle of relief printing and can be printed either as intaglio or relief.

The term collagraph refer to a collage board where the materials are

assembled on a flat base or plate (matrix) to form a relief block with different surface levels and textures.

Collagraph plates are created by sticking and gluing materials like textured paper or fabric onto the plate and then coat it with varnish or acrylic medium afterwards to

protect the materials.

The plate can be made from wood plates or cardboard plates that you build up using different materials.

PRINTMAKING TechniquesCOLLAGRAPH

PRINTMAKING Techniques Monoprint

A monoprint is a one off impression made by applying printing ink to a flat surface and then transferring the

image to paper or a similar printing surface.

The printing surface can be anything which is flat, smooth and non-absorbent (glass, gelatin, plastic,

metal, acetate), but should not be too thick as the print need to fit through the printing press.

PRINTMAKING Techniques Monoprint

Monoprint

Why do you suppose some artists choose printmaking, rather

than drawing or painting, when they

want to communicate their feelings or ideas to

lots of people?

What is ART to YOU?

Why do YOU want to create ART?

What do you want to SAY with your ART?

What do you want others to FEEL when they view your art?