Printmaking Terms
Write the terms and definitions below in your sketchbook http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/printmaking-glossary.htm
4 Main Types of Printmaking Write the terms and definitions below in your sketchbook |
LUNDGREN'S LIBRARY - Books related to printmaking in the art room
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1. Relief Printing -The image is printed from ink on the surface of wood, linoleum, or other flat surface. Nonprinting areas have been cut away. www.melanieleslie.com/printmaking_terms.htm
Foam Rubber Stamp Wood Cut Linocut Collograph (some types) Metal Cut |
2. Intaglio - Lines and areas that are sunk into the plate to take the ink as opposed to relief where the printing areas are left upstanding. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/printmaking-glossary.htm
Etching Mezzotint Dry Point Engraving Aquatint |
3. Lithography (Planographic) - Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adhere to them by, while the non-image areas are made ink-repellent http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/l/lithography
Stone lithography Offset printing Collotype Di-litho |
4. Serigraphy (Screen Print, Silkscreen, Stencil) - Screen printing, also known as serigraphy, is a method of creating an image on paper, fabric or some other object by pressing ink through a screen with areas blocked off by a stencil.http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/screen-printing-serigraphy
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