Manipulating The Image - Printmaking (Blog 10)

Printmaking

A form of art that involves transferring ink to paper, making many copies of the same artwork. Each individual copy is called a "print." A set of print's are called "an edition" and a signed and numbered set of prints is called "a limited edition." Printmaking originated in China around 105 C.E. after paper was invented.


Early Uses Of Printmaking.

• Saints Card 
• Paper Money
• Tiles
• Tarot Cards
• Books (After the invention of paper.)
• Playing Cards

The Diamond Sutra

The oldest known dated printed book in the world.

Used as a teaching of Buddhism.

Three Printmaking Techniques


Relief - Where ink is applied to the original surface of the matrix. Relief techniques include woodcut or woodblock as the Asian forms are usually known, wood engraving, lino cut and metal cut.

Planographic - Where the matrix retains its original surface, but is specially prepared and/or inked to allow for the transfer of the image. Planographic includes lithography, monotyping and digital techniques.

Stencil - Where ink or paint is pressed through a prepared screen, including screen-printing and pochoir.

Bob Marley II (1999) by Stephen Alcorn

 Hand printed on Acid Free paper,  17 x 13 in. image, 23 x 17-1/2 in.

(5 blocks, dark over light)

Relief-block prints.

Change by Charles Criner

Created on a 1830s (19th century) star-wheel stone lithography press.

Portrays the history of three historic Americans also the African Americans and the great change that has occurred in USA. Beginning with slavery, the civil rights movement and the Obama presidency. (Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama.)

Lithography/Planographic

Ever she comes on a mountain breeze by Fin DAC

Apart of the Crimes of Minds project located in Brest, France.

Stencil Print-making.