Week 19

  • Define, in your own words, the printmaking terms
  • Find examples on the Internet to represent each of those terms

Wood engraving
A reversed design or picture is carved out of a block of wood. Then, the block is rolled up with ink (on its top surface) and printed onto paper.

Linocut
Similar technique as wood engraving, but the image is carved out of a linoleum surface. The linoleum sheet is inked with a roller, and then impressed onto paper or fabric. The actual printing can be done by hand or with a printing press.

Drypoint
In this technique, a picture is drawn by scratching a piece of metal. Then, the surface is inked, wiped and printed onto damp paper using a printing press.

Etching
A metal plate is covered with wax, some of it is scratched to draw a picture or design. Then, the plate is placed in a mordant bath that will eat the exposed metal. Once removed from the bath and cleaned, the plate is inked, wiped and printed onto damped paper with a printing press.

Engraving
The process for this technique is similar to Drypoint, but in this case, the carving is executed with a V-shaped burin which produces smoother hard-edged marks.

Lithography
This technique is based in the principle that oil and water don't mix. The image is drawn to the surface with a greasy material. The oil-based ink will adhere to the greased areas and not the others, which are wet. Then the image is transferred to the paper sheet.

Screen-printing
A mesh is used to transfer ink onto the paper, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.

Monoprinting
A monoprint is a single impression of an image made from a reprintable block. Ink is painted into the surface and printed off without the use of a print.

Digital printing
It is a method of printing from a digital-based image directly to a variety of media.

  • Use your graphite, eraser, eraser putty and blending stub to sketch spheres using the following techniques: hatching and cross hatching, blending, rendering, squiggly lines and cross contour lines.
  • Watch the prescribed Adobe Illustrator video on LinkedIn and complete the exercise files
  • Find a poem that inspires you. Follow the exercise in the lesson above and illustrate your poem.

I chose a poem by Rupi Kaur:

stay strong through your pain grow flowers from it you have helped me grow flowers out of mine so bloom beautifully dangerously loudly bloom softly however you need just bloom

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