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A powerpoint used by our student teacher to teach how to do printmaking.
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Printmaking
How it began• Used in Egypt
and China as early as 2000 B.C.E; often for text
• Mass produce images for books
• Albrecht Durer’s Large Passion in 1497 first “artwork print”
Relief printmaking
• Woodcut• Linoleum
Felix Vallotton
• French artist; woodcuts in 1890’s
Pablo Picasso
Etching• Scratching into a metal plate, and dipping the
plate in acid to etch in the lines you’ve made
Printmaking in our culture• Playing cards• Text (letter type/ fonts)• Book images (before mass production)• Screen printing on T-shirts
Lithography
• Usually done on aluminum plate or stone; based on drawing and then chemically processing the image into the stone