June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 19m
English
Printmaking at its core is based in working with only two values (negative and positive space) or, more simply, two shades of color (black and white). When we draw with graphite or paint with watercolor, we can build layers to create an endless variety of values. You can create many layers with printmaking as well when using a variety of colored inks (we will get into that later in the book). For now, we are recognizing that the primary nature of a single print is that with one stamp there are only two values. And so, we have the challenge of creating the illusion of color shades, and we do that with hatch marks.
Hatch mark shading is a foundational drawing technique and is essential ...
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