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Printmaking
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Mount Fuji, from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, color woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai
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"Melencolia I", engraving by Albrecht Dürer, one of the most important printmakers.
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"The sleep of Reason creates monsters", etching and aquatint by Francisco Goya
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Printmaking is the creation of a matrix, also known as a plate, inking that plate, and then transferring that inked image onto paper or another material.
The matrix could be a wooden block, a piece of sheet linoleum, a metal plate, etc.
This process produces multiple prints from a single image, unlike drawing or painting which only produces one.
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Emphasis is an area in an artwork that visually stands out from the rest of the piece.
• Artists use center of interest to attract and hold a viewer’s attention
• The viewers eye often starts at a piece’s center of interest, moves around, and then ends back at the center of interest.
• Using what we have learned so far in class we can use our skills to create a focal point within our work.
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Where is the Emphasis in each of these works of art?
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We are going to use a form of block printing.
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So where did printmaking start?
• The Chinese developed a printing technique called “woodcut” to print books of Chinese characters and images, around 100 AD.
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Types of printmakingPrintmaking techniques are generally divided into the following basic
categories:
• Relief - where ink is applied to the raised surface of the matrix. Relief techniques include woodcut or woodblock as the Asian forms are usually known, wood engraving, linocut and metal cut.
• Intaglio - where ink is applied beneath the original surface of the matrix. Intaglio techniques include engraving, etching, mezzotint, aquatint.
• Stencil - where ink or paint is pressed through a prepared screen, including screen printing and stencil graffiti.
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New Vocabulary to know.
• Block: the wooden/linoleum piece you carve• Gouges: sharp tools used to carve out
linoleum strips• Print: an inked impression of your block,
placed on paper (this is what you’ll turn in)• Edition: lots of prints that all look exactly the
same
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So what are we doing?
• We are going to use foam to create an edition of 20 or so prints.
• Before you can start your 20 print editions, you will first need to make an Artist’s proof.
• We will then exchange 1 print each to everyone in the class.
• Then we will arrange the pages like a book, and bind them together.
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We will be carving and pressing into foam to create a print.
Things to consider.
•Your image will print backwards (mirror-imaged)•There is no shading in linoleum cuts; only the color of the ink and the color of the paper.•Your print is created by carving out lines•It’s very difficult to put detail into a lino cut
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Our prints will based on Monsters
• A monster is any creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is often hideous and may produce fear or physical harm by its appearance and/or its actions. The word "monster" derives from Latin monstrum, an aberrant occurrence, usually biological, that was taken as a sign that something was wrong within the natural order.
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We are going to be making monster prints.
• What you can do is draw up a monster and write a small story to accompany the picture so your monster has context.
• You can also make a monster up from a real fear you have. This would mean your monster is a living version of something that might scare you.
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Examples of monsters in history.
• Japanese Oni (demon)
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Ogre
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Living dead (zombie)
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There are so many more, if you know of any write them down. They may make great pictures to make prints from.
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Today: What we are doing…
• We are going to start by filling out the sheet about monsters. This will help you find a monster or picture you want to work on.
• Start to sketch up ideas for you print.• Draw on black paper with a white crayon to
understand what your print will look like.
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