December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Printmaking creates multiple impressions, allowing wider dissemination and lower cost. Since the mid-nineteenth century, artists have numbered and signed their prints, creating limited editions.
• Relief. The artist carves into a surface or “matrix,” removing areas that are to remain white in the final image (for example, woodblock and linocut).
• Intaglio. The artist cuts into the surface of a metal plate either directly, as in engraving, or indirectly, as in etching where a line is made in a wax ground and then bitten with acid into the metal plate beneath. Mezzotint is a variation of intaglio.
• Planographic. The surface of the matrix is changed by the action of chemicals to make parts of it resist inking ...